Laceration without foreign body of unspecified forearm

• birth trauma (P10-P15)
• obstetric trauma (O70-O71)

code to identify any retained foreign body, if applicable (Z18.-)

• 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
• 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.

• burns and corrosions (T20-T32)
• frostbite (T33-T34)
• injuries of wrist and hand (S60-S69)
• insect bite or sting, venomous (T63.4)

• open fracture of elbow and forearm (S52.- with open fracture 7th character)
• traumatic amputation of elbow and forearm (S58.-)

open wound of wrist and hand (S61.-)

any associated wound infection

The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category S51

open wound of elbow (S51.0-)