Diagnosis Code: 455.8

Short Description: Hemrrhoid NOS w comp NEC

Long Description: Unspecified hemorrhoids with other complication

Code Classification:

• Diseases of the circulatory system (390–459)
  • Diseases of veins and lymphatics, and other diseases of circulatory system (451-459)
    • 455 Hemorrhoids
      • 455.8 Hemrrhoid NOS w comp NEC

Code Version: 2015 ICD-9-CM

Synonyms

• Bleeding hemorrhoids
• Gangrenous pile
• Pile reducible with difficulty
• Prolapsed hemorrhoids
• Prolapsed pile irreducible
• Reducibility of prolapsed pile
• Strangulated hemorrhoids
• Ulcerated hemorrhoids

References to Index of Diseases and Injuries

The code 455.8 has the following ICD-9-CM references to the Index of Diseases and Injuries

• Hemorrhoids (anus) (rectum) (without complication) 455.6
  • bleeding, prolapsed, strangulated, or ulcerated NEC 455.8
    • external 455.5
    • internal 455.2
  • complicated NEC 455.8

• Strangulation, strangulated 994.7
  • hemorrhoids 455.8
    • external 455.5
    • internal 455.2

• Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative 707.9
  • hemorrhoids 455.8
    • external 455.5
    • internal 455.2

• Varicose
  • ulcer (lower extremity, any part) 454.0
    • anus 455.8
      • external 455.5
      • internal 455.2

Crosswalk Information

The code 455.8 converts into the following ICD-10 code(s):

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This page was last updated on: 10/1/2014

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