S24.4 Injury of thoracic sympathetic nervous system

Non-billable ICD-10-CM code.

Applicable to

• Injury of cardiac plexus
• Injury of esophageal plexus
• Injury of pulmonary plexus
• Injury of stellate ganglion
• Injury of thoracic sympathetic ganglion

Applies from S24 Injury of nerves and spinal cord at thorax level

Excludes2 (not included here)

• injury of brachial plexus (S14.3)

Code also

• any associated:
• fracture of thoracic vertebra (S22.0-)
• open wound of thorax (S21.-)
• transient paralysis (R29.5)

7th character note

• The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category S24

Notes

• Code to highest level of thoracic spinal cord injury
• Injuries to the spinal cord (S24.0 and S24.1) refer to the cord level and not bone level injury, and can affect nerve roots at and below the level given.

7th character required

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

Code annotations containing back-references to S24.4

Back-references to S24

• Type 1 Excludes: G83.8 Other specified paralytic syndromes ("paralytic syndromes due to current spinal cord injury-code to spinal cord injury (S14, S24, S34)")

Diagnosis Index entries for S24.4

• Injury › nerve NEC › thorax › sympathetic

Nearby codes

• S24.2XXS Injury of nerve root of thoracic spine, sequela
• S24.3 Injury of peripheral nerves of thorax
• S24.3XXA Injury of peripheral nerves of thorax, initial encounter
• S24.3XXD Injury of peripheral nerves of thorax, subsequent encounter
• S24.3XXS Injury of peripheral nerves of thorax, sequela
• S24.4 Injury of thoracic sympathetic nervous system (this code)
• S24.4XXA Injury of thoracic sympathetic nervous system, initial encounter
• S24.4XXD Injury of thoracic sympathetic nervous system, subsequent encounter
• S24.4XXS Injury of thoracic sympathetic nervous system, sequela
• S24.8 Injury of other specified nerves of thorax
• S24.8XXA Injury of other specified nerves of thorax, initial encounter