K35

Acute appendicitis

Non-billable header

K35 is a non-billable header code. Use one of the more specific codes below.

Excludes2

Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.

  • 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)

More specific codes K35

  • K35.2Acute appendicitis with generalized peritonitisHeader
  • K35.3Acute appendicitis with localized peritonitisHeader
  • K35.8Other and unspecified acute appendicitisHeader

Related codes

  • K36Other appendicitisBillable
  • K37Unspecified appendicitisBillable
  • K38Other diseases of appendixHeader

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