Table 1.
Lexicon | Injury description | Code3 |
ICD-9 | Abdominal Aorta Injury | 902.0 |
ICD-10 | Injury of abdominal aorta | S35.0 |
AIS90 | Aorta, Abdominal NFS (not further specified) | 520299.4 |
intimal tear, no disruption | 520202.4 | |
laceration (perforation, puncture) NFS | 520204.4 | |
minor1 | 520206.4 | |
major2 | 520208.5 |
1superficial, incomplete transection; incomplete circumferential involvement; blood loss ≤ 20% by volume
2 rupture, incomplete transection; segmental loss; complete circumferential involvement; blood loss ≥ 20% by volume
3 in italics the AIS score that allows computation of injury severity score