L89.44 Pressure ulcer of contiguous site of back, buttock and hip, stage 4
Instructional Notes:
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L89.44
Description: Pressure ulcer of contiguous site of back, buttock and hip, stage 4
Inclusion Term:
- Healing pressure ulcer of contiguous site of back, buttock and hip, stage 4
- Pressure ulcer with necrosis of soft tissues through to underlying muscle, tendon, or bone, contiguous site of back, buttock and hip
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L89.4
Description: Pressure ulcer of contiguous site of back, buttock and hip
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L89
Description: Pressure ulcer
Exclude2:
- decubitus (trophic) ulcer of cervix (uteri) (N86)
- diabetic ulcers (E08.621, E08.622, E09.621, E09.622, E10.621, E10.622, E11.621, E11.622, E13.621, E13.622)
- non-pressure chronic ulcer of skin (L97.-)
- skin infections (L00-L08)
- varicose ulcer (I83.0, I83.2)
Code First:
- any associated gangrene (I96)
Include:
- bed sore
- decubitus ulcer
- plaster ulcer
- pressure area
- pressure sore
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L80-L99
Description: Other disorders of the skin and subcutaneous tissue (L80-L99)
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L00-L99
Description: Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue
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)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
- lipomelanotic reticulosis (I89.8)
- neoplasms (C00-D49)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)
- systemic connective tissue disorders (M30-M36)
- viral warts (B07.-)