NC56.Z

The ICD-11 code for injury of unspecified blood vessel at wrist or hand level is NC56.Z. The full clinical description is "Injury of unspecified blood vessel at wrist or hand level".

ICD-11 code NC56.Z represents “Injury of unspecified blood vessel at wrist or hand level”. It is classified under Chapter 22: Injury, Poisoning or Certain Other Consequences of External Causes.

NC56.Z is in Chapter 22: Injury, Poisoning or Certain Other Consequences of External Causes (codes NA00-NF2Z).

NC56.Z maps to 3 ICD-10 codes: S65 (Injury of blood vessels at wrist and hand level), S65.8 (Injury of other blood vessels at wrist and hand level), S65.9 (Injury of unspecified blood vessel at wrist and hand level). ICD-10 and ICD-11 do not always have one-to-one mappings — check the mapping type (equivalent, approximate, narrower, or broader) for each result.

ICD-11 is the latest revision of the WHO's International Classification of Diseases, succeeding ICD-10. Key differences include: a fully digital-first design, new chapters for sleep-wake disorders, sexual health, and traditional medicine, improved coding for rare diseases, and better integration with electronic health records through extension codes.

NC56.Z is linked to 2 UMLS Concept Unique Identifiers: C0478312, C0478311. The UMLS (Unified Medical Language System) integrates multiple biomedical vocabularies maintained by the U.S. National Library of Medicine.