ICD-10-CM Code for Intracranial injury S06

ICD-10 code S06 for Intracranial injury is a medical classification as listed by WHO under the range - Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes .

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Intracranial injury
Note: 7th characters D and S do not apply to codes in category S06 with 6th character 7 - death due to brain injury prior to regaining consciousness, or 8 - death due to other cause prior to regaining consciousness.
Code also any associated:
open wound of head (S01.-)
skull fracture (S02.-)
Includes: traumatic brain injury
Use additional code, if applicable, to identify mild neurocognitive disorders due to known physiological condition (F06.7-)
Excludes1: head injury NOS (S09.90)
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