Bone, stress fracture
| ICD10 Diagnosis | |
| Dx: | Bone, stress fracture |
| ICD10 code: | M84.3 |
| Pre-ICD10 counterpart: | Pathological Fractures |
| Charlson/ALERT Scale: | none |
| APACHE Como Component: | none |
| APACHE Acute Component: | none |
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| Stop Date: | |
| Data Dependencies(Reports/Indicators/Data Elements): | No results |
| External ICD10 Documentation | |
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Additional Info
- Stress fractures, which are frequently hairline fractures, are due to repetitive stress rather than a single big trauma. As a result, athletes tend to get them.
- Note that this is a "one size fits all" code, in that stress fractures in any bone get this code. We did not create different codes for different bones.
Alternate ICD10s to consider coding instead or in addition
See: Coding fractures in ICD10
Candidate Combined ICD10 codes
None.
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