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- Note: This code is for use only when no documentation is available identifying the specific injury. This code is not for use in the inpatient setting.
- Injury NOS
- T14.91 Suicide attempt
- Attempted suicide NOS
Effects of foreign body entering through natural orifice (T15-T19)
- Excludes2: foreign body accidentally left in operation wound (T81.5-)
- foreign body in penetrating wound - See open wound by body region
- residual foreign body in soft tissue (M79.5)
- splinter, without open wound - See superficial injury by body region
- Codes within this section that include the external cause no not need an additional external cause code
T15 Foreign body on external eye
- Excludes2: foreign body in penetrating wound of orbit and eye ball (S05.4-, S05.5-)
- open wound of eyelid and periocular area (S01.1-)
- retained foreign body in eyelid (H02.8-)
- retained (old) foreign body in penetrating wound of orbit and eye ball (H05.5-, H44.6-, H44.7-)
- superficial foreign body of eyelid and periocular area (S00.25-)
- The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category T15
- A initial encounter
- D subsequent encounter
- S sequela
- T15.0 Foreign body in cornea
- T15.00 Foreign body in cornea, unspecified eye
- T15.01 Foreign body in cornea, right eye
- T15.02 Foreign body in cornea, left eye
- T15.1 Foreign body in conjunctival sac
- T15.10 Foreign body in conjunctival sac, unspecified eye
- T15.11 Foreign body in conjunctival sac, right eye
- T15.12 Foreign body in conjunctival sac, left eye
- T15.8 Foreign body in other and multiple parts of external eye
- Foreign body in lacrimal punctum
- T15.80 Foreign body in other and multiple parts of external eye, unspecified eye
- T15.81 Foreign body in other and multiple parts of external eye, right eye
- T15.82 Foreign body in other and multiple parts of external eye, left eye
- T15.9 Foreign body on external eye, part unspecified
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