K40.0
Bilateral inguinal hernia, with obstruction, without gangrene
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Coding notes
Excludes 1 never coded together · Excludes 2 may co-exist
Inguinal hernia (bilateral) causing obstruction without gangrene Incarcerated inguinal hernia (bilateral) without gangrene Irreducible inguinal hernia (bilateral) without gangrene Strangulated inguinal hernia (bilateral) without gangrene
bubonocele direct inguinal hernia double inguinal hernia indirect inguinal hernia inguinal hernia NOS oblique inguinal hernia scrotal hernia
acquired hernia congenital [except diaphragmatic or hiatus] hernia recurrent hernia
Hernia with both gangrene and obstruction is classified to hernia with gangrene.
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)