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2009 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Code 953.1
Injury to dorsal nerve root
- Short description: DORSAL ROOT INJURY.
- ICD-9-CM 953.1 is a billable medical code that can be used to specify a diagnosis on a reimbursement claim.
- You are viewing the 2009 version of ICD-9-CM 953.1.
- More recent version(s) of ICD-9-CM 953.1: 2010 2011 2012 2013.
Convert 953.1 to ICD-10-CM 

ICD-9-CM 953.1 converts approximately to:
- 2013 ICD-10-CM S24.2XXA Injury of nerve root of thoracic spine, initial encounter
ICD-9-CM Volume 2 Index entries containing back-references to 953.1:
- Injury 959.9

nerve 957.9

abducens 951.3

abducent 951.3

accessory 951.6

acoustic 951.5

ankle and foot 956.9

anterior crural, femoral 956.1

arm (see also Injury, nerve, upper limb) 955.9

auditory 951.5

axillary 955.0

brachial plexus 953.4

cervical sympathetic 954.0

cranial 951.9


first or olfactory 951.8


second or optic 950.0


third or oculomotor 951.0


fourth or trochlear 951.1


fifth or trigeminal 951.2


sixth or abducens 951.3


seventh or facial 951.4


eighth, acoustic, or auditory 951.5


ninth or glossopharyngeal 951.8


tenth, pneumogastric, or vagus 951.8


eleventh or accessory 951.6


twelfth or hypoglossal 951.7


newborn 767.7

cutaneous sensory
digital (finger) 955.6


toe 956.5

facial 951.4


newborn 767.5

femoral 956.1

finger 955.9

foot and ankle 956.9

forearm 955.9

glossopharyngeal 951.8

hand and wrist 955.9

head and neck, superficial 957.0

hypoglossal 951.7

involving several parts of body 957.8

leg (see also Injury, nerve, lower limb) 956.9

lower limb 956.9

lumbar plexus 953.5

lumbosacral plexus 953.5

median 955.1

multiple (in several parts of body) (sites not classifiable to the same three-digit category) 957.8

musculocutaneous 955.4

musculospiral 955.3


upper arm 955.3

oculomotor 951.0

olfactory 951.8

optic 950.0

pelvic girdle 956.9

peripheral 957.9

peroneal 956.3

plantar 956.5

plexus 957.9

pneumogastric 951.8

radial 955.3


wrist and hand 955.3

sacral plexus 953.5

sciatic 956.0


thigh 956.0

shoulder girdle 955.9

specified site NEC 957.1

spinal 953.9

splanchnic 954.1

sympathetic NEC 954.1


cervical 954.0

thigh 956.9

tibial 956.5

toe 956.9

trigeminal 951.2

trochlear 951.1

trunk, excluding shoulder and pelvic girdles 954.9

ulnar 955.2

upper limb 955.9

vagus 951.8

wrist and hand 955.9
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