S35.09Other injury of abdominal aorta

S35.09 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for other injury 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, choose S35.09 (Other injury of abdominal aorta) only when documentation doesn't support a more specific option: unspecified injury of abdominal aorta (S35.00), minor laceration of abdominal aorta (S35.01) and major laceration of abdominal aorta (S35.02).

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.