Z40-Z54: Persons encountering health services for specific procedures and health care
Z43: Attention to artificial openings
Subcodes of Z43:
- Z43.0: Attention to tracheostomy
- Z43.1: Attention to gastrostomy
- Z43.2: Attention to ileostomy
- Z43.3: Attention to colostomy
- Z43.4: Attention to other artificial openings of digestive tract
- Z43.5: Attention to cystostomy
- Z43.6: Attention to other artificial openings of urinary tract
- Z43.7: Attention to artificial vagina
- Z43.8: Attention to other artificial openings
- Z43.9: Attention to unspecified artificial opening
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