Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
notes: -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 Use Additional Code: -code to identify any retained foreign body, if applicable (Z18.-)
notes: -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.