Stress fracture
Requires 7th character
M84.3 requires a 7th character to be reported. Choose a complete code below.
Inclusion terms
Applicable to
- Fatigue fracture
- March fracture
- Stress fracture NOS
- Stress reaction
Includes (from M84)
- Note: Use an external cause code following the code for the musculoskeletal condition, if applicable, to identify the cause of the musculoskeletal condition
Excludes1
Not coded here — never report together with this code.
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
- personal history of (healed) stress (fatigue) fracture (Z87.312)
- stress fracture of vertebra (M48.4-)
- arthropathic psoriasis (L40.5-) (from M84)
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96) (from M84)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99) (from M84)
- compartment syndrome (traumatic) (T79.A-) (from M84)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A) (from M84)
- congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99) (from M84)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88) (from M84)
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88) (from M84)
- neoplasms (C00-D49) (from M84)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94) (from M84)
- traumatic fracture of bone-see fracture, by site (from M84)
Use additional code
Add a code to identify the following, if applicable.
- external cause code(s) to identify the cause of the stress fracture
7th character
This code requires a 7th character. Use the placeholder "X" for missing positions.
| Character | Meaning |
|---|---|
| A | initial encounter for fracture |
| D | subsequent encounter for fracture with routine healing |
| G | subsequent encounter for fracture with delayed healing |
| K | subsequent encounter for fracture with nonunion |
| P | subsequent encounter for fracture with malunion |
| S | sequela |
Also known as
- Fatigue fracture
- March fracture
- Stress fracture NOS
- Stress reaction
Parent code
- M84Disorder of continuity of boneHeader
More specific codes M84.3
- M84.30Stress fracture, unspecified siteNeeds 7th char
- M84.31Stress fracture, shoulderNeeds 7th char
- M84.32Stress fracture, humerusNeeds 7th char
- M84.33Stress fracture, ulna and radiusNeeds 7th char
- M84.34Stress fracture, hand and fingersNeeds 7th char
- M84.35Stress fracture, pelvis and femurNeeds 7th char
- M84.36Stress fracture, tibia and fibulaNeeds 7th char
- M84.37Stress fracture, ankle, foot and toesNeeds 7th char
- M84.38Stress fracture, other siteNeeds 7th char
Related codes
- M84.4Pathological fracture, not elsewhere classifiedNeeds 7th char
- M84.5Pathological fracture in neoplastic diseaseNeeds 7th char
- M84.6Pathological fracture in other diseaseNeeds 7th char
- M84.7Nontraumatic fracture, not elsewhere classifiedHeader
- M84.8Other disorders of continuity of boneHeader
- M84.9Disorder of continuity of bone, unspecifiedBillable