H44.712 Retained (nonmagnetic) (old) foreign body in anterior chamber, left eye
Instructional Notes:
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H44.712
Description: Retained (nonmagnetic) (old) foreign body in anterior chamber, left eye
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H44.71
Description: Retained (nonmagnetic) (old) foreign body in anterior chamber
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H44.7
Description: Retained (old) intraocular foreign body, nonmagnetic
Exclude1:
- current intraocular foreign body (S05.-)
Exclude2:
- retained foreign body in eyelid (H02.81-)
- retained (old) foreign body following penetrating wound of orbit (H05.5-)
- retained (old) intraocular foreign body, magnetic (H44.6-)
Use Additional Code:
- code to identify nonmagnetic foreign body (Z18.01-Z18.10, Z18.12, Z18.2-Z18.9)
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H44
Description: Disorders of globe
Include:
- disorders affecting multiple structures of eye
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H43-H44
Description: Disorders of vitreous body and globe (H43-H44)
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H00-H59
Description: Diseases of the eye and adnexa
Exclude2:
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
- congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
- diabetes mellitus related eye conditions (E09.3-, E10.3-, E11.3-, E13.3-)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
- injury (trauma) of eye and orbit (S05.-)
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
- neoplasms (C00-D49)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)
- syphilis related eye disorders (A50.01, A50.3-, A51.43, A52.71)
Notes:
- Use an external cause code following the code for the eye condition, if applicable, to identify the cause of the eye condition