Dissection of artery of lower extremity

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.

Valid FY2017 onwards.

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2017 to now.

FY2017 Added to the code set Dissection of artery of lower extremity

Official coding rules

Published by CDC for FY2027. A rule attached to a category binds every code beneath it, so the rules inherited from this code's ancestors are shown with the code they come from.

Inherited from I77 Other disorders of arteries and arterioles

Excludes2 - not included here

collagen (vascular) diseases (M30-M36)
hypersensitivity angiitis (M31.0)
pulmonary artery (I28.-)

How CDC's index refers to this code

Wording from the official alphabetic index. Much of it appears nowhere in the code description, which is why a search for the everyday phrase so often finds nothing.

Dissection > artery > extremity > lower

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
I77.70	Dissection of unspecified artery	Valid
I77.71	Dissection of carotid artery	Valid
I77.72	Dissection of iliac artery	Valid
I77.73	Dissection of renal artery	Valid
I77.74	Dissection of vertebral artery	Valid
I77.75	Dissection of other precerebral arteries	Valid
I77.76	Dissection of artery of upper extremity	Valid
I77.79	Dissection of other specified artery	Valid