ICD-10-CM code "K40.4": Unilateral inguinal hernia, with gangrene (2024)

Excludes

1. Diseases of the digestive system (K00-K95)

   Type 2certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)

   Type 2certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)

   Type 2complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)

   Type 2congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)

   Type 2endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)

   Type 2injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)

   Type 2neoplasms (C00-D49)

   Type 2symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)

2. Hernia (K40-K46)
3. Inguinal hernia (K40)
4. Unilateral inguinal hernia, with gangrene (K40.4)

Includes

1. Diseases of the digestive system (K00-K95)
2. Hernia (K40-K46)

   Includesacquired hernia

   Includescongenital [except diaphragmatic or hiatus] hernia

   Includesrecurrent hernia

3. Inguinal hernia (K40)

   Includesbubonocele

   Includesdirect inguinal hernia

   Includesdouble inguinal hernia

   Includesindirect inguinal hernia

   Includesinguinal hernia NOS

   Includesoblique inguinal hernia

   Includesscrotal hernia

4. Unilateral inguinal hernia, with gangrene (K40.4)

Subcategories

• Unilateral inguinal hernia, with gangrene, not specified as recurrent (K40.40)
• Unilateral inguinal hernia, with gangrene, recurrent (K40.41)