E991.8 - Injury Due To War Operations By Fragments From Weapons

The ICD 9 Code for Injury due to war operations by fragments from weapons is listed as E991.8.
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:	E991.8
Long Description:	Injury due to war operations by fragments from weapons
Short Description:	War inj:weapon fragments

Chapter:	Supplementary Classification Of External Causes Of Injury And Poisoning
ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Codes General Equivalence Mappings (GEMS):
ICD-10-CM Code:	Y36.270A - War operations involving fragments from weapons, military personnel, initial encounter (approximate)
ICD-9-CM Siblings (same level / similar specificity) of E991.8:
E991.0 - Injury due to war operations from rubber bullets (rifle)
E991.1 - Injury due to war operations from pellets (rifle)
E991.2 - Injury due to war operations from other bullets
E991.3 - Injury due to war operations from antipersonnel bomb (fragments)
E991.4 - Injury due to war operations by fragments from munitions
E991.5 - Injury due to war operations by fragments from person-borne improvised explosive device [IED]
E991.6 - Injury due to war operations by fragments from vehicle-borne improvised explosive device [IED]
E991.7 - Injury due to war operations by fragments from other improvised explosive device [IED]
E991.9 - Injury due to war operations from other and unspecified fragments