Includes:

  • injuries of axilla
  • injuries of scapular region

Excludes2

  1. S47 Crushing injury of shoulder and upper arm

    Use additional code for all associated injuries

    Excludes2

    • crushing injury of elbow (S57.0-)

    The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category S47

    • A - initial encounter
    • D - subsequent encounter
    • S - sequela
    1. S47.1 Crushing injury of right shoulder and upper arm

    2. S47.2 Crushing injury of left shoulder and upper arm

    3. S47.9 Crushing injury of shoulder and upper arm, unspecified arm

Abbreviations used here:

NEC Not elsewhere classifiable
This abbreviation in the Tabular List represents “other specified”. When a specific code is not available for a condition, the Tabular List includes an NEC entry under a code to identify the code as the “other specified” code.

NOS Not otherwise specified
This abbreviation is the equivalent of unspecified.