KA43.3

ICD-11 MMS 2026-01

Birth injury to face

Description

Birth injuries to face include injuries sustained to nose (deviations, deformities, or septal damage), ears (abrasions, lacerations, deformities or haematomas).

Coding note from above levels

Conditions arising in the perinatal period, even though death or morbidity occurs later, should, as far as possible, be coded to chapter 19, which takes precedence over chapters containing codes for diseases by their anatomical site. For children less than 28 days old, assume that a reported condition developed in the perinatal period, unless the duration is stated and the onset was after the first completed week of life.

Index terms

  • Birth injury to face
  • Birth injury to skin and soft tissues of face, ears or neck
  • Facial congestion due to birth injury

Exclusions from above levels

  • KA42 – Birth injury to scalp
  • 01 – Certain infectious or parasitic diseases - acquired after birth
  • 02 – Neoplasms
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  • 05 – Endocrine, nutritional or metabolic diseases
  • 08 – Certain congenital diseases of the nervous system
  • 20 – Congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities
  • 22 – Injury, poisoning or certain other consequences of external causes
  • 3A10 – Hereditary haemolytic anaemia
  • 4A01.03 – Transient hypogammaglobulinaemia of infancy
  • 9B71.3 – Retinopathy of prematurity
  • BC43 – congenital cardiomyopathy
  • DA93.0 – Paralytic ileus
  • EA50.Z – Pemphigus neonatorum
  • EH40.00 – Cradle cap
  • http://id.who.int/icd/entity/588616678 – Gastroenteritis or colitis of infectious origin
  • http://id.who.int/icd/entity/609214049 – Congenital gonococcal infection

Sibling codes

  • KA43.0 – Birth injury to sternocleidomastoid
  • KA43.1 – Birth injury to external genitalia
  • KA43.2 – Subcutaneous fat necrosis due to birth injury
  • KA43.Y – Other specified birth injury to skin or soft tissues
  • KA43.Z – Birth injury to skin or soft tissues, unspecified

Foundation entity

Birth injury to face – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/409494931

Allowed postcoordination axes

Part of: KA43: Birth injury to skin or soft tissues › 19: Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period