ICD-11 classes
13 Diseases of the digestive system
Diverticular disease of intestine
Diverticular disease of small intestine
DC70 — Diverticulitis of small intestine
DC70.1 — Diverticulitis of small intestine without complication
ICD-11 DC70.1 — Diverticulitis of small intestine without complication
This develops from diverticulosis, which involves the formation of pouches (diverticula) on the outside of the small intestine and results if one or some of these diverticula becomes inflamed, of the small intestine without complication.
The diagnosis includes nothing.
The diagnosis excludes nothing.
It has no clarifying diagnoses.
The diagnosis is coded elsewhere: