E40
Kwashiorkor
Billable
Chapter: 4. Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases
Section: E40-E46 - Malnutrition
Coding Guidelines
Inclusion Terms
- Severe malnutrition with nutritional edema with dyspigmentation of skin and hair
Excludes1 (Mutually Exclusive)
These codes should never be used together with E40
- E42 - marasmic kwashiorkor (E42)
