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2007 ICD-9-CM Volume 1 Diagnosis Codes Home > Injury And Poisoning 800-999 > Other And Unspecified Effects Of External Causes 990-995 > Effects Of Reduced Temperature 991.* > 2007 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis 991.4 Immersion foot This code may be outdated. View the most recent version of ICD-9-CM 991.4 A condition of the feet produced by prolonged exposure of the feet to water. Exposure for 48 hours or more to warm water causes tropical immersion foot or warm-water immersion foot common in Vietnam where troops were exposed to prolonged or repeated wading in paddy fields or streams. Trench foot results from prolonged exposure to cold, without actual freezing. It was common in trench warfare during World War I, when soldiers stood, sometimes for hours, in trenches with a few inches of cold water in them. (Andrews' Diseases of the Skin, 8th ed, p27) 991.4 is a specific code that can be used to specify a diagnosis 991.4 contains 13 index entries View the ICD-9-CM Volume 1 991.* hierarchy 991.4 also known as: Trench foot Index entries containing 991.4: Acrotrophodynia 991.4 Effect, adverse NEC immersion, foot 991.4 reduced temperature 991.9 immersion, foot (hand) 991.4 Immersion 994.1 foot 991.4 hand 991.4 Maceration wet feet, tropical (syndrome) 991.4 Stasis foot 991.4 Syndrome - see also Disease tropical wet feet 991.4 wet feet (maceration) (tropical) 991.4 Trench foot 991.4 Tropical - see also condition maceration feet (syndrome) 991.4 wet foot (syndrome) 991.4 Wet feet, tropical (syndrome) (maceration) 991.4