S35.02Major laceration of abdominal aorta

S35.02 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for major laceration of abdominal aorta. It belongs to category S35 (injury of blood vessels at abdomen, lower back and pelvis level), block S30-S39 (injuries to the abdomen, lower back, lumbar spine, pelvis and external genitals) 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 S35.0 (injury of abdominal aorta), S35.02 is specifically for major laceration of abdominal aorta. Related codes cover unspecified injury of abdominal aorta (S35.00), minor laceration of abdominal aorta (S35.01) and other injury of abdominal aorta (S35.09).

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.