Vermiform appendix

Appendix vermiformis

Digestive FMA:14542 SCTID 66754008 3 codes

Blind-ended tube attached to the caecum in the right iliac fossa.

Inflammatory / Infection (3)

K35.80 Billable

Unspecified acute appendicitis

Acute appendicitis · SCTID 85189001

Coding advice: Use K35.2- or K35.3- when generalized or localized peritonitis is documented - those are combination codes.

K35.32 Billable

Acute appendicitis with perforation and localized peritonitis, without abscess

Acute appendicitis · SCTID 85189001

K37 Billable

Unspecified appendicitis

Appendicitis · SCTID 74400008

Other ICD-10-CA codes naming this structure (14)

Matched on the official ICD-10-CA description naming this structure. Candidate codes for review, not verified finding-site relationships, and without the coding advice the curated codes carry.

Code	ICD-10-CA title	Chapter	Matched on
C181	Malignant neoplasm of appendix	II	appendix
D121	Benign neoplasm of appendix	II	appendix
D373	Neoplasm of uncertain or unknown behaviour of appendix	II	appendix
K352	Acute appendicitis with generalized peritonitis	XI	appendicitis
K353	Acute appendicitis with localized peritonitis	XI	appendicitis
K358	Acute appendicitis, other and unspecified	XI	appendicitis
K36	Other appendicitis	XI	appendicitis
K380	Hyperplasia of appendix	XI	appendix
K382	Diverticulum of appendix	XI	appendix
K383	Fistula of appendix	XI	appendix
K388	Other specified diseases of appendix	XI	appendix
K389	Disease of appendix, unspecified	XI	appendix
N4400	Torsion of appendix epididymis	XIV	appendix
N4402	Torsion of appendix testis	XIV	appendix

Scaffold crosswalk. Scaffold crosswalk. Validate against a licensed FMA release, a SNOMED CT release and the current NLM complex map refset before clinical or billing use.