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ICD-9-CM
557.0

ICD-9-CM Code 557.0

Official Description

Acute vascular insufficiency of intestine
Acute: hemorrhagic enterocolitis, ischemic colitis, enteritis, or enterocolitis; massive necrosis of intestine
Bowel infarction
Embolism of mesenteric artery
Fulminant enterocolitis
Hemorrhagic necrosis of intestine
Infarction of appendices epiploicae
Intestinal gangrene
Intestinal infarction (acute) (agnogenic) (hemorrhagic) (nonocclusive)
Mesenteric infarction (embolic) (thrombotic)
Necrosis of intestine
Terminal hemorrhagic enteropathy
Thrombosis of mesenteric artery
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