18Pregnancy, childbirth or the puerperium
Delivery
JB22
category
Single delivery by caesarean section
Definition A condition caused by the development of a fetus to the culmination of the pregnancy period. This condition is characterised by parturition of a single neonate from the uterus by caesarean section.
International Classification of Diseases, Eleventh Revision (ICD-11), World Health Organization (WHO) 2019/2021, https://icd.who.int/browse11. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 3.0 IGO (CC BY-ND 3.0 IGO).
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