Incomplete lesion of sacral spinal cord
Requires 7th character
S34.132 requires a 7th character to be reported. Choose a complete code below.
Inclusion terms
Applicable to
- Incomplete lesion of conus medullaris
Includes (from S34)
- injuries to the abdominal wall
- injuries to the anus
- injuries to the buttock
- injuries to the external genitalia
- injuries to the flank
- injuries to the groin
- 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 lumbar cord injury
- Note: Injuries to the spinal cord (S34.0 and S34.1) 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 S34)
- obstetric trauma (O70-O71) (from S34)
- burns and corrosions (T20-T32) (from S34)
- effects of foreign body in anus and rectum (T18.5) (from S34)
- effects of foreign body in genitourinary tract (T19.-) (from S34)
- effects of foreign body in stomach, small intestine and colon (T18.2-T18.4) (from S34)
- frostbite (T33-T34) (from S34)
- insect bite or sting, venomous (T63.4) (from S34)
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7th character
This code requires a 7th character (defined at S34). Use the placeholder "X" for missing positions.
| Character | Meaning |
|---|---|
| A | initial encounter |
| D | subsequent encounter |
| S | sequela |
Also known as
- Incomplete lesion of conus medullaris
- Injury, spinal, sacral, incomplete lesion
Parent code
- S34.13Other and unspecified injury to sacral spinal cordNeeds 7th char