Diagnosis Code: 959.8

Short Description: Injury mlt site/site NEC

Long Description: Other specified sites, including multiple injury

Code Classification:

• Injury and poisoning (800–999)
  • Certain traumatic complications and unspecified injuries (958-959)
    • 959 Injury, other and unspecified
      • 959.8 Injury mlt site/site NEC

Code Version: 2015 ICD-9-CM

Synonyms

• Bite to own tongue
• Calcified hematoma of head
• Endocrine injury
• Explosion on aircraft while taking off, occupant of commercial aircraft in surface to air transport injured
• Foreign body in bone
• Foreign body in fallopian tube
• Foreign body in ovary
• Foreign body of endocrine structure
• Foreign body of neurological structure
• Foreign body of skin of perineum
• Injury involving multiple body regions
• Injury of back of chest
• Injury of cervical region of back
• Injury of connective tissue
• Injury of free lower limb
• Injury of muscle and tendon of abdomen, lower back and pelvis
• Injury of musculoskeletal system
• Injury of nail
• Injury of pelvic girdle
• Injury of radius
• Injury of teeth
• Injury of ulna
• Injury of upper extremity
• Multiple injuries
• Radiation injury of bone marrow
• Sensory organ injury
• Severe multiple injuries
• Traumatic division of extensor tendon of toe
• Traumatic injury of skeletal muscle
• Victim of trauma with multiple injuries
• Vocal cord trauma

References to Index of Diseases and Injuries

The code 959.8 has the following ICD-9-CM references to the Index of Diseases and Injuries

• Injury 959.9
  • extremity (lower) (upper) NEC 959.8
  • multiple (sites not classifiable to the same four-digit category in 959.0-959.7) 959.8
    • internal 869.0
      • with open wound into cavity 869.1
  • specified site NEC 959.8

Crosswalk Information

The code 959.8 converts into the following ICD-10 code(s):

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