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K55.9
Billable

Vascular disorder of intestine, unspecified

Chapter 11: Diseases of the digestive system

Inclusion Terms

3 items
  • Ischemic colitis
  • Ischemic enteritis
  • Ischemic enterocolitis

Billable Code

K55.9 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.

Referenced in Diagnoses

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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.

Excludes1

1 item

From K55:

  • necrotizing enterocolitis of newborn (P77.-)

Excludes2

9 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)

From K55:

  • angioectasia (angiodysplasia) duodenum (K31.81-)
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