ICD-11 classes
08 Diseases of the nervous system
Injuries of the nervous system
Injuries to the head
NA04 — Injury of cranial nerves
KA44.0 — Birth injury to cranial nerves
KA44.00 — Birth injury to facial nerve

ICD-11 KA44.00 — Birth injury to facial nerve

Facial palsy involving both upper and lower halves of the face caused by traumatic compression of the facial nerve as it exits the stylomastoid foramen, or as it passes over the ramus of the mandible.

The diagnosis includes nothing.

The diagnosis excludes nothing.

It has no clarifying diagnoses.

The diagnosis is coded elsewhere:

• Injury of facial nerve #8086
• Injury of facial nerve #8311
• Birth injury to cranial nerves #8318
• Birth injury to cranial nerves #21707
• Injury of facial nerve #25541
• Birth injury to cranial nerves #25548