Other and unspecified injuries of thoracic spinal cord
Requires 7th character
S24.1 requires a 7th character to be reported. Choose a complete code below.
Inclusion terms
Includes (from S24)
- injuries of breast
- injuries of chest (wall)
- injuries of interscapular area
- Note: Use secondary code(s) from Chapter 20, External causes of morbidity, to indicate cause of injury. Codes within the T section that include the external cause do not require an additional external cause code
- Note: The chapter uses the S-section for coding different types of injuries related to single body regions and the T-section to cover injuries to unspecified body regions as well as poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes.
- Note: Code to highest level of thoracic spinal cord injury
- Note: Injuries to the spinal cord (S24.0 and S24.1) refer to the cord level and not bone level injury, and can affect nerve roots at and below the level given.
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
- birth trauma (P10-P15) (from S24)
- obstetric trauma (O70-O71) (from S24)
- burns and corrosions (T20-T32) (from S24)
- effects of foreign body in bronchus (T17.5) (from S24)
- effects of foreign body in esophagus (T18.1) (from S24)
- effects of foreign body in lung (T17.8) (from S24)
- effects of foreign body in trachea (T17.4) (from S24)
- frostbite (T33-T34) (from S24)
- injuries of axilla (from S24)
- injuries of clavicle (from S24)
- injuries of scapular region (from S24)
- injuries of shoulder (from S24)
- insect bite or sting, venomous (T63.4) (from S24)
- injury of brachial plexus (S14.3) (from S24)
Use additional code
Add a code to identify the following, if applicable.
Code also
An additional code may be needed.
7th character
This code requires a 7th character (defined at S24). Use the placeholder "X" for missing positions.
| Character | Meaning |
|---|---|
| A | initial encounter |
| D | subsequent encounter |
| S | sequela |
Parent code
- S24Injury of nerves and spinal cord at thorax levelNeeds 7th char
More specific codes S24.1
- S24.10Unspecified injury of thoracic spinal cordNeeds 7th char
- S24.11Complete lesion of thoracic spinal cordNeeds 7th char
- S24.13Anterior cord syndrome of thoracic spinal cordNeeds 7th char
- S24.14Brown-Sequard syndrome of thoracic spinal cordNeeds 7th char
- S24.15Other incomplete lesions of thoracic spinal cordNeeds 7th char
Related codes
- S24.0Concussion and edema of thoracic spinal cordNeeds 7th char
- S24.2Injury of nerve root of thoracic spineNeeds 7th char
- S24.3Injury of peripheral nerves of thoraxNeeds 7th char
- S24.4Injury of thoracic sympathetic nervous systemNeeds 7th char
- S24.8Injury of other specified nerves of thoraxNeeds 7th char
- S24.9Injury of unspecified nerve of thoraxNeeds 7th char