Burns

International Classification of Diseases for Mortality and Morbidity Statistics, 11th Revision, v2024-01

A burn is an injury to the tissues caused by a pathological flux of energy which causes cellular destruction and irreversible denaturation of proteins and is primarily caused by thermal or other acute trauma.

exclusions

• Sunburn  (EJ40)
• Adverse cutaneous effects of therapeutic ionizing irradiation  (EL60-EL63)
• Adverse effects of phototherapy  (Chapter 14)
• Photosensitivity due to drug  (EH75)
• Phototoxic reactions to skin contact with photoactive agents  (EK20-EK2Z)
• Neonatal phototherapy burn  (KC50)

sections/codes in this section (ND90-NE2Z)

• Burns of external body surface, specified by site  (ND90-ND9Z)
• Burns of eye or internal organs  (NE00-NE0Z)
• Burns of multiple or unspecified body regions  (NE10-NE11)
• Burns, unspecified  (NE2Z)

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