Other injury of unspecified body region
Requires 7th character
T14.8 requires a 7th character to be reported. Choose a complete code below.
Inclusion terms
Applicable to
- Abrasion NOS
- Contusion NOS
- Crush injury NOS
- Fracture NOS
- Skin injury NOS
- Vascular injury NOS
- Wound NOS
Includes (from T14)
- 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.
Excludes1
Not coded here — never report together with this code.
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
Use additional code
Add a code to identify the following, if applicable.
7th character
This code requires a 7th character (defined at T14). Use the placeholder "X" for missing positions.
| Character | Meaning |
|---|---|
| A | initial encounter |
| D | subsequent encounter |
| S | sequela |
Also known as
- Abrasion NOS
- Contusion NOS
- Crush injury NOS
- Fracture NOS
- Skin injury NOS
- Vascular injury NOS
- Wound NOS
- Abrasion
- Abrasion, skin NEC
- Contusion
- Contusion, bone NEC
- Contusion, skin NEC
- Contusion, subcutaneous NEC
- Contusion, subperiosteal NEC
- Crush, crushed, crushing
- Crush, crushed, crushing, internal organNEC
- Crush, crushed, crushing, severe, unspecified site
- Fracture, traumatic
- Fracture, traumatic, bone NEC
- Hematomyelia, traumatic
- Injury, blastNEC
- Injury, blood vessel NEC
Parent code
- T14Injury of unspecified body regionNeeds 7th char
More specific codes T14.8
Related codes
- T14.9Unspecified injuryNeeds 7th char