ICD-11 classes
13 Diseases of the digestive system
Symptoms, signs or clinical findings of the digestive...
Clinical findings in the digestive system
ME24 — Clinical manifestations of the digestive system
ME24.A — Other digestive system haemorrhage, not elsewhere classified
ME24.A4 — Melaena

ICD-11 ME24.A4 — Melaena

It is bloody stools that indicate bleeding from vascular system in the digestive tract. It is also described as black, tarry, and foul-smelling stools or red/maroon-coloured stools that contain degraded blood.

The diagnosis includes nothing.

It has no clarifying diagnoses.

The diagnosis is coded elsewhere:

• Symptoms related to the lower gastrointestinal tract or abdomen #15050
• Symptoms related to the lower gastrointestinal tract or abdomen #24542
• Other digestive system haemorrhage, not elsewhere classified #24653