Block in Chapter 11

K50–K52

Noninfective enteritis and colitis

Excludes1

Not coded here. The listed conditions generally should not be reported together.

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Not included here. Both codes may be reported if the patient has both conditions.

Also from chapter/block level (8 notes)

Inherited from Chapter 11 Diseases of the digestive system

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)

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