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ICD-10-CM Code for Unspecified behavioral and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood and adolescence F98.9

ICD-10 code F98.9 for Unspecified behavioral and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood and adolescence is a medical classification as listed by WHO under the range - Mental, Behavioral and Neurodevelopmental disorders .

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Official Long Descriptor

Unspecified behavioral and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood and adolescence

F98

Excludes2: breath-holding spells (R06.89)
gender identity disorder of childhood (F64.2)
Kleine-Levin syndrome (G47.13)
obsessive-compulsive disorder (F42.-)
sleep disorders not due to a substance or known physiological condition (F51.-)

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