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ICD-10-CM Code for Unspecified intracranial injury S06.9

ICD-10 code S06.9 for Unspecified 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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Official Long Descriptor

Unspecified intracranial injury
Brain injury NOS
Head injury NOS with loss of consciousness
Traumatic brain injury NOS
Excludes1: conditions classifiable to S06.0- to S06.8-code to specified intracranial injury
head injury NOS (S09.90)

S06

Includes: traumatic brain injury

Excludes1: head injury NOS (S09.90)

Code also: any associated:
open wound of head (S01.-)
skull fracture (S02.-)

Use additional code, if applicable, to identify mild neurocognitive disorders due to known physiological condition (F06.7-)

 
S06.9 Unspecified intracranial injury
Child Code
Unspecified intracranial injury

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