In
medicine, fragmentation is an operation that breaks of solid matter in a body part into pieces.
Physical force
In physics, a force is an influence that can change the motion of an Physical object, object. A force can cause an object with mass to change its velocity (e.g. moving from a Newton's first law, state of rest), i.e., to accelerate. Force can ...
(e.g.,
manual force,
ultrasonic force), applied directly or indirectly through intervening body parts, are used to break down the solid matter into pieces. The solid matter may be an abnormal by-product of a biological function, or a
foreign body
A foreign body (FB) is any object originating outside the body of an organism. In machinery, it can mean any unwanted intruding object.
Most references to foreign bodies involve propulsion through natural orifices into hollow organs.
Foreign bo ...
. The pieces of solid matter are not taken out, but are eliminated or absorbed through normal biological functions. Examples would be the fragmentation of
kidney and
urinary bladder stones (
nephrolithiasis and
urolithiasis
Kidney stone disease, also known as nephrolithiasis or urolithiasis, is a crystallopathy where a solid piece of material (kidney stone) develops in the urinary tract. Kidney stones typically form in the kidney and leave the body in the urine s ...
, respectively) by
shock-wave lithotripsy,
laser lithotripsy, or
transurethral lithotripsy.
The code for fragmentation in
ICD-10-PCS is 0FF.
References
Gastroenterology
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