S35.232Major laceration of inferior mesenteric artery

S35.232 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for major laceration of inferior mesenteric artery. 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 S35.23 (injury of inferior mesenteric artery), S35.232 is specifically for major laceration of inferior mesenteric artery. Related codes cover minor laceration of inferior mesenteric artery (S35.231), other injury of inferior mesenteric artery (S35.238) and unspecified injury of inferior mesenteric artery (S35.239).

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.