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2013 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Code 709.2
Scar conditions and fibrosis of skin
- lingering mark left on the skin after a surface injury, formed in the process of wound healing; also includes the new, internal tissue formed in the process of repair, as in a scarred kidney.
- A mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue.
- ICD-9-CM 709.2 is a billable medical code that can be used to specify a diagnosis on a reimbursement claim.
709.2 Alternative Terminology
- Eyelid scar
- Joint contracture of finger due to scar
- Scar causing joint contracture of finger
- Scar of eyelid
- Scar of skin of eyelid
709.2 Excludes 
- keloid scar (701.4
)
Applies To
- Adherent scar (skin)
- Cicatrix
- Disfigurement (due to scar)
- Fibrosis, skin NOS
- Scar NOS
Convert 709.2 to ICD-10-CM
ICD-9-CM 709.2 converts directly to:
- 2013 ICD-10-CM L90.5 Scar conditions and fibrosis of skin
ICD-9-CM Volume 2 Index entries containing back-references to 709.2:
- Adherent
scar (skin) NEC 709.2
tendon in scar 709.2
- Atrophy, atrophic
- scar NEC 709.2
- Cicatrix (adherent) (contracted) (painful) (vicious) 709.2
- adenoid 474.8
- alveolar process 525.8
- anus 569.49
- auricle 380.89
- bile duct (see also Disease, biliary) 576.8
- bladder 596.89
- bone 733.99
- brain 348.89
- cervix (postoperative) (postpartal) 622.3
- choroid - see Cicatrix, chorioretinal
- common duct (see also Disease, biliary) 576.8
- congenital 757.39
- conjunctiva 372.64
- duodenum (bulb) 537.3
- esophagus 530.3
- eyelid 374.46
with
ectropion - see Ectropion- entropion - see Entropion
- hypopharynx 478.29
- knee, semilunar cartilage 717.5
- larynx 478.79
- limbus (cystoid) 372.64
- lung 518.89
- middle ear 385.89
- mouth 528.9
- muscle 728.89
- nasopharynx 478.29
- palate (soft) 528.9
- penis 607.89
- prostate 602.8
- rectum 569.49
- semilunar cartilage - see Derangement, meniscus
- seminal vesicle 608.89
- specified site NEC 709.2
- throat 478.29
- tongue 529.8
- tonsil (and adenoid) 474.8
- trachea 478.9
- tuberculous NEC (see also Tuberculosis) 011.9
- ureter 593.89
- urethra 599.84
- uterus 621.8
- vocal cord 478.5
- wrist, constricting (annular) 709.2
- Disfigurement (due to scar) 709.2
- head V48.6
- limb V49.4
- neck V48.7
- trunk V48.7
- Fibrosis, fibrotic
- skin NEC 709.2
- Painful - see also Pain
- scar NEC 709.2
- Scar, scarring (see also Cicatrix) 709.2
- adherent 709.2
- atrophic 709.2
- cervix
- cheloid 701.4
- choroid (see also Scar, chorioretinal) 363.30
- compression, pericardial 423.9
- congenital 757.39
- conjunctiva 372.64
- cornea 371.00
- xerophthalmic 264.6
- due to previous cesarean delivery, complicating pregnancy or childbirth 654.2
- affecting fetus or newborn 763.89
- duodenal (bulb) (cap) 537.3
- hypertrophic 701.4
- keloid 701.4
- labia 624.4
- lung (base) 518.89
- muscle 728.89
- myocardium, myocardial 412
- painful 709.2
- papillary muscle 429.81
- posterior pole NEC 363.33
- macular - see Scar, macula
- postnecrotic (hepatic) (liver) 571.9
- psychic V15.49
- retina (see also Scar, chorioretinal) 363.30
- trachea 478.9
- uterus 621.8
- vulva 624.4
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