S15.31Minor laceration of internal jugular vein

S15.31 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for minor laceration of internal jugular vein. It belongs to category S15 (injury of blood vessels at neck level), block S10-S19 (injuries to the neck) and chapter 19 (injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes). It is a header code, so it can't be reported by itself; one of its 3 subcodes must be used instead.

Within S15.3 (injury of internal jugular vein), S15.31 is specifically for minor laceration of internal jugular vein. Related codes cover unspecified injury of internal jugular vein (S15.30), major laceration of internal jugular vein (S15.32) and other specified injury of internal jugular vein (S15.39).

Codes in this range require a 7th character: A for initial encounter, D for subsequent encounter and S for sequela. Use placeholder "X" characters to fill any empty positions before the 7th character.

It has been part of ICD-10-CM since the code set took effect on October 1, 2015 and hasn't changed since.