S05.7 Avulsion of eye

Non-billable header with 3 child codes.

Applicable to

• Traumatic enucleation

Applies from S05 Injury of eye and orbit

Includes

• open wound of eye and orbit

Excludes2 (not included here)

• 2nd cranial [optic] nerve injury (S04.0-)
• 3rd cranial [oculomotor] nerve injury (S04.1-)
• open wound of eyelid and periocular area (S01.1-)
• orbital bone fracture (S02.1-, S02.3-, S02.8-)
• superficial injury of eyelid (S00.1-S00.2)

7th character note

• The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category S05

7th character required

• A — initial encounter
• D — subsequent encounter
• S — sequela

Codes under S05.7

• S05.70 Avulsion of unspecified eye
• S05.71 Avulsion of right eye
• S05.72 Avulsion of left eye

Code annotations containing back-references to S05.7

Back-references to S05

• Code Also: G96.00 Cerebrospinal fluid leak, unspecified ("head injury (S00-S09)")
• Code Also: G96.08 Other cranial cerebrospinal fluid leak ("head injury (S00 - S09)")
• Code Also: G96.09 Other spinal cerebrospinal fluid leak ("head injury (S00 - S09)")
• Type 1 Excludes: H44.6 Retained (old) intraocular foreign body, magnetic ("current intraocular foreign body (S05.-)")
• Type 1 Excludes: H44.7 Retained (old) intraocular foreign body, nonmagnetic ("current intraocular foreign body (S05.-)")
• Type 1 Excludes: S00 Superficial injury of head ("injury of eye and orbit (S05.-)")
• Type 2 Excludes: S01 Open wound of head ("injury of eye and orbit (S05.-)")

Diagnosis Index entries for S05.7

• Avulsion (traumatic) › eye
• Enucleated eye (traumatic, current)
• Injury › eye › avulsion
• Wound, open › ocular › avulsion (traumatic enucleation)

Nearby codes

• S05.61XS Penetrating wound without foreign body of right eyeball, sequela
• S05.62 Penetrating wound without foreign body of left eyeball
• S05.62XA Penetrating wound without foreign body of left eyeball, initial encounter
• S05.62XD Penetrating wound without foreign body of left eyeball, subsequent encounter
• S05.62XS Penetrating wound without foreign body of left eyeball, sequela
• S05.7 Avulsion of eye (this code)
• S05.70 Avulsion of unspecified eye
• S05.70XA Avulsion of unspecified eye, initial encounter
• S05.70XD Avulsion of unspecified eye, subsequent encounter
• S05.70XS Avulsion of unspecified eye, sequela
• S05.71 Avulsion of right eye