ICD-11 classes
13 Diseases of the digestive system
Diseases of the stomach or the duodenum
Diseases of stomach
DA42 — Gastritis
DA42.9 — Gastric phlegmon
ICD-11 DA42.9 — Gastric phlegmon
A spreading diffuse inflammatory process with formation of suppurative/purulent exudate or pus in the gastric wall. It often develops to a defined pocket of pus, gastric abscess. This is mainly due to the result of acute inflammation by bacterial infection.
It includes 2 items.
- Gastric abscess
- Phlegmonous gastritis
The diagnosis excludes nothing.
It has no clarifying diagnoses.