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== Additional Info ==
== Additional Info ==
*Use this code for a a fracture of any vertebrae that is due to bony involvement by a neoplasm (can be malignant or benign) that has weakened the bone and led to the fracture.
*Use this code for a a fracture of any vertebrae that is due to bony involvement by a neoplasm (can be malignant or benign) that has weakened the bone and led to the fracture.


{{ICD10 Fracture}}
== Alternate ICD10s to consider coding instead or in addition ==
Other '''codes for pathologic fracture due to neoplasms'''
*[[Femur or pelvis, pathologic fracture due to neoplastic disease]]
*[[Vertebra, pathologic fracture due to neoplastic disease]]
*[[Bone NOS, pathologic fracture due to neoplastic disease]]


== Alternate ICD10s to consider coding instead or in addition ==
== Candidate [[Combined ICD10 codes]] ==
*It may also help you to see '''[[Coding fractures in ICD10]]'''
Also code the cancer, and if relevant, that there are [[Bone or bone marrow, metatstatic malignancy to it (also code primary site)|bony mets]].
*BUT IN PARTICULAR, note that there are other codes for pathologic fracture due to neoplasms
**[[Femur or pelvis, pathologic fracture due to neoplastic disease]]
**[[Vertebra, pathologic fracture due to neoplastic disease]]
**[[Bone NOS, pathologic fracture due to neoplastic disease]]


== Candidate [[Combined ICD10 codes]] ==
== Candidate [[Combined ICD10 codes]] ==
*Also code the cancer, and if relevent, that there are bony mets.
*Also code the cancer, and if relevent, that there are bony mets.


== Related CCI Codes ==
== Related CCI Codes ==