ICD-11 classes
21 Symptoms, signs or clinical findings, not elsewhere...
Symptoms, signs or clinical findings of the digestive...
Symptoms or signs involving the digestive system or abdomen
Symptoms related to the lower gastrointestinal tract or...
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
• Other digestive system haemorrhage, not elsewhere classified #15161
• Other digestive system haemorrhage, not elsewhere classified #24653