S20.0: Contusion of breast
You have bruising to your breast.
You can bruise your breast in an accident, for example. The areas concerned can swell up and be painful. Sometimes black spots form. Usually there isn’t any open injury on skin with a bruise.
Additional indicator
On medical documents, the ICD code is often appended by letters that indicate the diagnostic certainty or the affected side of the body.
- G: Confirmed diagnosis
- V: Tentative diagnosis
- Z: Condition after
- A: Excluded diagnosis
- L: Left
- R: Right
- B: Both sides
Further information
Source
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