Diseases of Musculoskeletal System and Connective Tissues (M00 – M99)
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Site and laterality are mentioned in this chapter. For e.g. left shoulder pain and right shoulder. Left and right are the laterality, so assign the code accordingly
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Pathological fracture due to any other disease like Neoplasm and HIV.
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Pathological fracture codes started from M series
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Traumatic Fracture code started from S series. Fracture occurred due to any trauma.
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In this chapter codes goes to 7th character and the seventh character shoulder be A, D, S.