Burns
International Classification of Diseases for Mortality and Morbidity Statistics, 11th Revision, v2024-01
A burn is an injury to the tissues caused by a pathological flux of energy which causes cellular destruction and irreversible denaturation of proteins and is primarily caused by thermal or other acute trauma.
exclusions
- Sunburn (EJ40)
- Adverse cutaneous effects of therapeutic ionizing irradiation (EL60-EL63)
- Adverse effects of phototherapy (Chapter 14)
- Photosensitivity due to drug (EH75)
- Phototoxic reactions to skin contact with photoactive agents (EK20-EK2Z)
- Neonatal phototherapy burn (KC50)
sections/codes in this section (ND90-NE2Z)
- Burns of external body surface, specified by site (ND90-ND9Z)
- Burns of eye or internal organs (NE00-NE0Z)
- Burns of multiple or unspecified body regions (NE10-NE11)
- Burns, unspecified (NE2Z)
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