ND71

ICD-11 MMS 2026-01

Foreign body in ear

Description

Objects that inadvertently enter the ear from the environment.

Index terms

  • Foreign body in ear
  • foreign body in auditory canal

Exclusions from above levels

  • FB56.1 – Residual foreign body in soft tissue
  • PL11.3 – foreign body accidentally left in operation wound
  • FB80.7 – Malunion of fracture
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  • FB80.8 – Nonunion of fracture
  • FB80.A – Stress fracture, not elsewhere classified
  • FB80.B – Pathological fracture
  • http://id.who.int/icd/entity/624443803 – Birth injury
  • JB0A – Certain specified obstetric trauma

Sibling codes

  • ND70 – Foreign body on external eye
  • ND72 – Foreign body in respiratory tract
  • ND73 – Foreign body in alimentary tract
  • ND74 – Foreign body in genitourinary tract
  • ND7Z – Effects of foreign body entering through natural orifice, unspecified

Foundation entity

Foreign body in ear – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/2083535144

Allowed postcoordination axes

Part of: 22: Injury, poisoning or certain other consequences of external causes