K83.1
Obstruction of bile duct
Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 13 never code together
K83code
K83.1code
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
Excludes1 — never code together. The excluded condition and this one are mutually exclusive.
Excludes2 — not included here, but the patient may have both. Code both when documented.
Instructional notes 3
K83.1code
Inclusion terms
- Occlusion of bile duct without cholelithiasis
- Stenosis of bile duct without cholelithiasis
- Stricture of bile duct without cholelithiasis
Index entries leading here 10
- Stenosis, stenotic (cicatricial) — see also Stricture
- Stricture — see also Stenosis
- Obstruction, obstructed, obstructive
- Occlusion, occluded
- bile duct (common) (hepatic) (noncalculous) K83.1
- Obliteration
- Stasis
- bile (noncalculous) K83.1
- Cholestasis NEC K83.1
- Jaundice (yellow) R17
- Syndrome — see also Disease
- Mirizzi's K83.1
- Mirizzi's syndrome (hepatic duct stenosis) K83.1
Alongside this code 7 same parent — K83
Medications 2
MED-RT files conditions by MeSH, which carves the world differently from ICD-10. These are name matches on this code's description, offered as candidates — not as an assertion that they are this code.
Additional references
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