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{{ICD10 category|Musculoskeletal/soft tissue}} {{ICD10 category|Fracture}}  
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== Additional Info ==
== Additional Info ==
*This is a wastebasket code for bone discontinuity problems that are not coded anywhere else.   
*Use this code for bone discontinuity problems that are not coded anywhere else.   
*Specifically Malunion or Nonunion of a bone -- these refer to problems with a bone failing to repair itself some time '''''after''''' a fracture of any cause (traumatic or nontraumatic).   
*Specifically Malunion or Nonunion of a bone -- these refer to problems with a bone failing to repair itself some time '''''after''''' a fracture of any cause (traumatic or nontraumatic).   
*Thus, the fracture is no longer current, but the bone never knitted, or knitted poorly/incorrectly.   
*Thus, the fracture is no longer current, but the bone never knitted, or knitted poorly/incorrectly.   
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== Alternate ICD10s to consider coding instead or in addition ==
== Alternate ICD10s to consider coding instead or in addition ==
It may also help you to see Coding fractures in ICD10
It may also help you to see '''[[Coding fractures in ICD10]]'''


== Candidate [[Combined ICD10 codes]] ==
== Candidate [[Combined ICD10 codes]] ==