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Y37.5 - Military operations involving nuclear weapons


The ICD 10 Code for Military operations involving nuclear weapons is listed as Y37.5.
Additional information concerning this code and description can be found below including ICD 9 crosswalks / GEMS, chapter information, and DRGs where available.

ICD 10 CM Field Value
Diagnosis Code: Y37.5
Description: Military operations involving nuclear weapons
  • Military operation involving dirty bomb NOS
Chapter External causes of morbidity (V00-Y99)
Block Legal intervention, operations of war, military operations, and terrorism (Y35-Y38)
Parent Y37 - Military operations
ICD-10-CM Children (deeper level / typically more specific) of Y37.5:
Y37.50 - Military operations involving unspecified effect of nuclear weapon
Y37.51 - Military operations involving direct blast effect of nuclear weapon
Y37.52 - Military operations involving indirect blast effect of nuclear weapon
Y37.53 - Military operations involving thermal radiation effect of nuclear weapon
Y37.54 - Military operation involving nuclear radiation effects of nuclear weapon
Y37.59 - Military operation involving other effects of nuclear weapons
ICD-10-CM Siblings (same level / similar specificity) of Y37.5:
Y37.0 - Military operations involving explosion of marine weapons
Y37.1 - Military operations involving destruction of aircraft
Y37.2 - Military operations involving other explosions and fragments
Y37.3 - Military operations involving fires, conflagrations and hot substances
Y37.4 - Military operations involving firearm discharge and other forms of conventional warfare
Y37.6 - Military operations involving biological weapons
Y37.7 - Military operations involving chemical weapons and other forms of unconventional warfare
Y37.9 - Other and unspecified military operations