Diseases of the digestive system - K00-K95
Diseases of the Digestive System - Chapter K deals with gastrointestinal disorders, including gastritis, ulcers, and liver diseases.
Excludes2: This note means that the conditions described by two codes are not usually associated with each other but can sometimes occur together.
Type 2 Excludes:
- 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)
These ranges represents sections of Diseases of the digestive system. The "K" signifies that these are the diseases within this broad chapter.
Codes:
- K00-K14 - Diseases of oral cavity and salivary glands
- K20-K31 - Diseases of esophagus, stomach and duodenum
- K35-K38 - Diseases of appendix
- K40-K46 - Hernia
- K50-K52 - Noninfective enteritis and colitis
- K55-K64 - Other diseases of intestines
- K65-K68 - Diseases of peritoneum and retroperitoneum
- K70-K77 - Diseases of liver
- K80-K87 - Disorders of gallbladder, biliary tract and pancreas
- K90-K95 - Other diseases of the digestive system