Salter-Harris Type I physeal fracture of upper end of unspecified femur

• 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)
• snake bite (T63.0-)
• venomous insect bite or sting (T63.4-)

A fracture not indicated as open or closed should be coded to closed

The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from subcategories S79.0 and S79.1

• apophyseal fracture of upper end of femur (S72.13-)
• nontraumatic slipped upper femoral epiphysis (M93.0-)

• Acute on chronic slipped capital femoral epiphysis (traumatic)
• Acute slipped capital femoral epiphysis (traumatic)
• Capital femoral epiphyseal fracture

chronic slipped upper femoral epiphysis (nontraumatic) (M93.02-)