Stress fracture, unspecified site

• Fatigue fracture
• March fracture
• Stress fracture NOS
• Stress reaction

• pathological fracture NOS (M84.4.-)
• pathological fracture due to osteoporosis (M80.-)
• traumatic fracture (S12.-, S22.-, S32.-, S42.-, S52.-, S62.-, S72.-, S82.-, S92.-)

• personal history of (healed) stress (fatigue) fracture (Z87.312)
• stress fracture of vertebra (M48.4-)

external cause code(s) to identify the cause of the stress fracture

The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from subcategory M84.3:

• arthropathic psoriasis (L40.5-)
• certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
• certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
• compartment syndrome (traumatic) (T79.A-)
• complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
• congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
• endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
• injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
• neoplasms (C00-D49)
• symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)

Use an external cause code following the code for the musculoskeletal condition, if applicable, to identify the cause of the musculoskeletal condition

traumatic fracture of bone-see fracture, by site