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. 2009 Jul 10;9:226. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-9-226

Table 1.

Abdominal aorta injury description using ICD9, ICD10 and AIS90.

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