S79.10

Non-billable

Unspecified physeal fracture of lower end 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 (9)

S79.1Physeal fracture of lower end of femurCategory→S79.11Salter-Harris Type I physeal fracture of lower end of femurCategory→S79.12Salter-Harris Type II physeal fracture of lower end of femurCategory→S79.13Salter-Harris Type III physeal fracture of lower end of femurCategory→S79.14Salter-Harris Type IV physeal fracture of lower end of femurCategory→S79.19Other physeal fracture of lower end of femurCategory→S79.101Unspecified physeal fracture of lower end of right femurCategory→S79.102Unspecified physeal fracture of lower end of left femurCategory→S79.109Unspecified physeal fracture of lower end 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 S79.10

Physeal fracture of lower end of femur

Salter-Harris Type I physeal fracture of lower end of femur

Salter-Harris Type II physeal fracture of lower end of femur

Salter-Harris Type III physeal fracture of lower end of femur

Salter-Harris Type IV physeal fracture of lower end of femur

Other physeal fracture of lower end of femur

Unspecified physeal fracture of lower end of right femur

Unspecified physeal fracture of lower end of left femur

Unspecified physeal fracture of lower end of unspecified femur