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K26.1
Billable

Acute duodenal ulcer with perforation

Chapter 11: Diseases of the digestive system

Billable Code

K26.1 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.

Referenced in Diagnoses

Conditions that use this ICD-10 code in their documentation

View documentation for peptic ulcer disease
peptic ulcer disease
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Peptic Ulcer Disease

View documentation for perforated duodenal ulcer
perforated duodenal ulcer
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Perforated Duodenal Ulcer

View documentation for viscus perforation
viscus perforation
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Perforation of Viscus

Additional Information from Parent Codes

The following information may apply to this code from its parent codes in the ICD-10 hierarchy. This information is important for proper coding and classification.

Includes

3 items

From K26:

  • erosion (acute) of duodenum
  • duodenum ulcer (peptic)
  • postpyloric ulcer (peptic)

Excludes1

1 item

From K26:

  • peptic ulcer NOS (K27.-)

Excludes2

8 items

From K00-K95:

  • certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
  • certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
  • complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
  • congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
  • endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
  • injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
  • neoplasms (C00-D49)
  • symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)

Use Additional Code

2 items

From K26:

  • code to identify:
  • alcohol abuse and dependence (F10.-)
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