A trimalleolar fracture happens when you break your lower leg sections that form your ankle joint and help you move your foot and ankle. Treatment includes surgery and extensive physical therapy. A trimalleolar fracture can have long-term impact on your quality of life. Appointments 216.444.2606.
They're at the end of your tibia along the inner aspect, at the fibula along the outer aspect, and at the back of the tibia. They create a triangle in your ankle. A trimalleolar facture can result from a number of injuries, such as a fall, car accident, or sports injury.
852 for Displaced trimalleolar fracture of left lower leg is a medical classification as listed by WHO under the range - Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes .
Open wound of ankle, foot and toes ICD-10-CM S91. 001A is grouped within Diagnostic Related Group(s) (MS-DRG v39.0):
A trimalleolar fracture occurs when the three malleoli bones that make up the ankle break at the same time. The malleoli are specific parts of the tibia and fibula that form the ankle.
Physicians classify broken ankles by the area of bone that has fractured. For instance, if both the fibula and tibia have broken, it is considered a bimalleolar fracture. Conversely, a trimalleolar fracture involves a break in the three parts of the ankle.
M25. 571 Pain in right ankle and joints of right foot - ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Codes.
ICD-10 code M25. 572 for Pain in left ankle and joints of left foot is a medical classification as listed by WHO under the range - Arthropathies .
Bimalleolar Fractures and Bimalleolar Equivalent Fractures "Bimalleolar" means that two of the three parts or malleoli of the ankle are fractured. (Malleoli is plural for malleolus.) In most cases of bimalleolar fracture, the lateral malleolus and the medial malleolus are fractured and the ankle is not stable.
The types of open wounds classified in ICD-10-CM are laceration without foreign body, laceration with foreign body, puncture wound without foreign body, puncture wound with foreign body, open bite, and unspecified open wound. For instance, S81. 812A Laceration without foreign body, right lower leg, initial encounter.
2. A non-healing wound, such as an ulcer, is not coded with an injury code beginning with the letter S. Four common codes are L97-, “non-pressure ulcers”; L89-, “pressure ulcers”; I83-, “varicose veins with ulcers”; and I70.
ICD-10 Code for Local infection of the skin and subcutaneous tissue, unspecified- L08. 9- Codify by AAPC.