Diagnosis Code: 959.6

Short Description: Hip & thigh injury NOS

Long Description: Hip and thigh injury

Code Classification:

• Injury and poisoning (800–999)
  • Certain traumatic complications and unspecified injuries (958-959)
    • 959 Injury, other and unspecified
      • 959.6 Hip & thigh injury NOS

Code Version: 2015 ICD-9-CM

Synonyms

• Compartment syndrome of thigh
• Complete division, hamstring tendon
• Complete division, quadriceps tendon
• Foreign body in thigh
• Foreign body left in hip
• Hamstring injury
• Injury of adductor muscle and tendon of thigh
• Injury of hip and thigh
• Injury of hip region
• Injury of multiple muscles and tendons at hip and thigh level
• Injury of muscle and tendon at hip and thigh level
• Injury of thigh
• Massive multi tissue damage hip or thigh
• Pellet wound of hip
• Pellet wound of thigh
• Severe multi tissue damage hip or thigh

References to Index of Diseases and Injuries

The code 959.6 has the following ICD-9-CM references to the Index of Diseases and Injuries

• Injury 959.9
  • hip (and thigh) 959.6
  • leg, except thigh (and ankle) (and foot) (and knee) 959.7
    • upper or thigh 959.6
  • thigh (and hip) 959.6

Crosswalk Information

The code 959.6 converts into the following ICD-10 code(s):

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