K38.8
Other specified diseases of appendix
Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 8 never code together
K00-K95chapter
Excludes2
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)P04-P96
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)A00-B99
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)O00-O9A
- congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)Q00-Q99
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)E00-E88
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)S00-T88
- neoplasms (C00-D49)C00-D49
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)R00-R94
Excludes2 — not included here, but the patient may have both. Code both when documented.
Instructional notes 1
K38.8code
Inclusion terms
- Intussusception of appendix
Index entries leading here 10
- Adhesions, adhesive (postinfective) K66.0
- appendix K38.8
- Atrophy, atrophic (of)
- appendix K38.8
- Cyst (colloid) (mucous) (simple) (retention)
- appendix K38.8
- Disease, diseased — see also Syndrome
- Intussusception (bowel) (colon) (enteric) (ileocecal) (ileocolic) (intestine) ( rectum) K56.1
- appendix K38.8
- Mucocele
- appendix K38.8
- Strangulation, strangulated — see also Asphyxia, traumatic
- appendix K38.8
- Sloughing (multiple) (phagedena) (skin) — see also Gangrene
- appendix K38.8
- Colic (bilious) (infantile) (intestinal) (recurrent) (spasmodic) R10.83
- appendix, appendicular K38.8
- Obliteration
- appendix (lumen) K38.8
Alongside this code 5 same parent — K38
Additional references
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Official coding advice for this code. Published by the American Hospital Association. Not included in this installation.