S72.30

Non-billable

Unspecified fracture of shaft of femur

Chapter 19: Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes

Additional Information

From parent codes: S00-T88 (Chapter 19)

Excludes 1 — Not Coded HereFrom S00-T88

Excludes1 means 'NOT CODED HERE!' An Excludes1 note indicates mutually exclusive codes: two conditions that cannot be reported together.

birth trauma (P10-P15)
obstetric trauma (O70-O71)

Use Additional CodeFrom S00-T88

The 'use additional code' note instructs that a secondary code should be added to provide more detail.

code to identify any retained foreign body, if applicable (Z18.-)

More Specific Codes (10)

S72.3Fracture of shaft of femurCategory→S72.32Transverse fracture of shaft of femurCategory→S72.33Oblique fracture of shaft of femurCategory→S72.34Spiral fracture of shaft of femurCategory→S72.35Comminuted fracture of shaft of femurCategory→S72.36Segmental fracture of shaft of femurCategory→S72.39Other fracture of shaft of femurCategory→S72.301Unspecified fracture of shaft of right femurCategory→S72.302Unspecified fracture of shaft of left femurCategory→S72.309Unspecified fracture of shaft of unspecified femurCategory→

Chapter Information

Chapter 19: Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes

Range: S00-T88

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Related ICD-10 Codes

More specific codes for S72.30

Fracture of shaft of femur

Transverse fracture of shaft of femur

Oblique fracture of shaft of femur

Spiral fracture of shaft of femur

Comminuted fracture of shaft of femur

Segmental fracture of shaft of femur

Other fracture of shaft of femur

Unspecified fracture of shaft of right femur

Unspecified fracture of shaft of left femur

Unspecified fracture of shaft of unspecified femur