kodex

Kodex

ICD-10-CM
Section

K40.2

Bilateral inguinal hernia, without obstruction or gangrene

Hierarchy

  • K00-K95 Diseases of the digestive system (K00-K95)
    • K40-K46 Hernia (K40-K46)
      • K40 Inguinal hernia
        • K40.2 Bilateral inguinal hernia, without obstruction or gangrene
          • K40.20 Bilateral inguinal hernia, without obstruction or gangrene, not specified as recurrent
          • K40.21 Bilateral inguinal hernia, without obstruction or gangrene, recurrent

Notes

K40-K46

  • Hernia with both gangrene and obstruction is classified to hernia with gangrene.

Includes

K40

  • bubonocele
  • direct inguinal hernia
  • double inguinal hernia
  • indirect inguinal hernia
  • inguinal hernia NOS
  • oblique inguinal hernia
  • scrotal hernia

K40-K46

  • acquired hernia
  • congenital [except diaphragmatic or hiatus] hernia
  • recurrent hernia

Excludes 2

K00-K95

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