Table 1.
ICD-9 Fragility fracture Codes Assigned to Study Patients and Controls.
| ICD-9 Code | Fracture | N (Patients/Controls) |
|---|---|---|
| 733.13 | Pathologic Fx-vertebrae | 10/14 |
| 733.14 | Pathologic Fx-femur | 0/2 |
| 802.6 | Orbital floor | 1/0 |
| 805.07 | C7 vertebra | 1/0 |
| 805.2 | Dorsal vertebra | 12/7 |
| 805.4 | Lumbar vertebra | 11/7 |
| 805.6 | Sacrum/coccyx | 0/1 |
| 805.8 | Vertebral Fx NOS | 3/1 |
| 812 | Proximal humerus NOS | 13/12 |
| 812.01 | Surgical neck of humerus | 2/0 |
| 812.02 | Anatomical neck of humerus | 0/1 |
| 813.41 | Colles’ fracture | 10/11 |
| 813.42 | Unspecified distal radius | 22/8 |
| 813.44 | Distal radius with ulna | 4/2 |
| 820 | Femur, intracapsular NOS | 0/1 |
| 820.02 | Femur, mid-cervical | 1/1 |
| 820.09 | Femur, transcervical | 2/4 |
| 820.2 | Trochanteric Fx NOS | 1/3 |
| 820.21 | Intertrochanteric | 3/8 |
| 820.22 | Subtrochanteric | 0/3 |
| 820.8 | Femoral neck NOS | 5/12 |
| 959.8, 959.9 | Polytraumaa, Mlt injury sitesa | 2/0 |
| Total | 103/98 | |
Abbreviations: ICD-9, International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision; Mlt, manual ligament therapy.
a Although these cases typically do not qualify as fragility fractures, these were determined to be from low-energy traumas.