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871.7 - Unspecified Ocular Penetration


The ICD 9 Code for Unspecified ocular penetration is listed as 871.7.
Additional information concerning this code and description can be found below including ICD 10 crosswalks / GEMS, and chapter information where available.
ICD 9 CM Field Value
Diagnosis Code: 871.7
Long Description: Unspecified ocular penetration
Short Description: Ocular penetration NOS
Chapter: Injury And Poisoning
Block: Open Wound Of Head, Neck, And Trunk (870-879)
ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Codes General Equivalence Mappings (GEMS):
ICD-10-CM Code: S05.60XA - Penetrating wound without foreign body of unspecified eyeball, initial encounter (approximate)
ICD-9-CM Siblings (same level / similar specificity) of 871.7:
871.0 - Ocular laceration without prolapse of intraocular tissue
871.1 - Ocular laceration with prolapse or exposure of intraocular tissue
871.2 - Rupture of eye with partial loss of intraocular tissue
871.3 - Avulsion of eye
871.4 - Unspecified laceration of eye
871.5 - Penetration of eyeball with magnetic foreign body
871.6 - Penetration of eyeball with (nonmagnetic) foreign body
871.9 - Unspecified open wound of eyeball