Accidental puncture or laceration of dura during a procedure
Billable / specific
G97.41 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes in FY2027.
Inclusion terms
Applicable to
- Incidental (inadvertent) durotomy
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96) (from G97)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99) (from G97)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A) (from G97)
- congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99) (from G97)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88) (from G97)
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88) (from G97)
- neoplasms (C00-D49) (from G97)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94) (from G97)
- intraoperative and postprocedural cerebrovascular infarction (I97.81-, I97.82-) (from G97)
Code also
An additional code may be needed.
- any associated diagnoses or complications
Also known as
- Incidental (inadvertent) durotomy
- Durotomy
- Tear, torn, dural
Parent code
- G97.4Accidental puncture and laceration of a nervous system organ or structure during a procedureHeader