S36.26Major laceration of pancreas

S36.26 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for major laceration of pancreas. It belongs to category S36 (injury of intra-abdominal organs), 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 4 subcodes must be used instead.

Within S36.2 (injury of pancreas), S36.26 is specifically for major laceration of pancreas. Related codes cover unspecified injury of pancreas (S36.20), contusion of pancreas (S36.22), laceration of pancreas, unspecified degree (S36.23), minor laceration of pancreas (S36.24), moderate laceration of pancreas (S36.25) and other injury of pancreas (S36.29).

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.