ICD-10-CM › S00-T88 › S20-S29 › S codes › S25
Injury of blood vessels of thorax
Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.
Submit one of these 8 more specific codes instead:
- S25.0 Injury of thoracic aorta (also a header)
- S25.1 Injury of innominate or subclavian artery (also a header)
- S25.2 Injury of superior vena cava (also a header)
- S25.3 Injury of innominate or subclavian vein (also a header)
- S25.4 Injury of pulmonary blood vessels (also a header)
- S25.5 Injury of intercostal blood vessels (also a header)
- S25.8 Injury of other blood vessels of thorax (also a header)
- S25.9 Injury of unspecified blood vessel of thorax (also a header)
This code requires a seventh character. See the rule below.
What has happened to this code
Every change the publisher made, from 2012 to now. Entries marked draft are from the pre-implementation releases: ICD-10 took effect on 1 October 2015, so nothing before FY2016 was ever valid on a claim.
- FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Injury of blood vessels of thorax
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.
This code
Seventh character required
- The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category S25
Code also
- any associated open wound (S21.-)
Inherited from the S20-S29 section Injuries to the thorax (S20-S29)
Excludes2 - not included here
- burns and corrosions (T20-T32)
- effects of foreign body in bronchus (T17.5)
- effects of foreign body in esophagus (T18.1)
- effects of foreign body in lung (T17.8)
- effects of foreign body in trachea (T17.4)
- frostbite (T33-T34)
- injuries of axilla
- injuries of clavicle
- injuries of scapular region
- injuries of shoulder
- insect bite or sting, venomous (T63.4)
Includes
- injuries of breast
- injuries of chest (wall)
- injuries of interscapular area