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S24.4XXA
Billable

Injury of thoracic sympathetic nervous system (initial encounter)

Extension type: Initial encounter
Chapter 19: Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes

Inclusion Terms

5 items
  • Injury of cardiac plexus
  • Injury of esophageal plexus
  • Injury of pulmonary plexus
  • Injury of stellate ganglion
  • Injury of thoracic sympathetic ganglion

Billable Code

S24.4XXA is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.

Additional Information from Parent Codes

The following information may apply to this code from its parent codes in the ICD-10 hierarchy. This information is important for proper coding and classification.

Inclusion Terms

5 items

From S24.4:

  • Injury of cardiac plexus
  • Injury of esophageal plexus
  • Injury of pulmonary plexus
  • Injury of stellate ganglion
  • Injury of thoracic sympathetic ganglion

Excludes1

2 items

From S00-T88:

Excludes2

1 item

From S24:

  • injury of brachial plexus (S14.3)

Use Additional Code

1 item

From S00-T88:

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

Notes

2 items

From S24:

  • Code to highest level of thoracic spinal cord injury
  • Injuries to the spinal cord (S24.0 and S24.1) refer to the cord level and not bone level injury, and can affect nerve roots at and below the level given.

7th Character Notes

4 items

From S24:

  • The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category S24
  • A: initial encounter
  • D: subsequent encounter
  • S: sequela
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