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ICD-10-CM Code for Other specified congenital malformations of skin Q82.8

ICD-10 code Q82.8 for Other specified congenital malformations of skin is a medical classification as listed by WHO under the range - Congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities .

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Official Long Descriptor

Other specified congenital malformations of skin
Abnormal palmar creases
Accessory skin tags
Benign familial pemphigus [Hailey-Hailey]
Congenital poikiloderma
Cutis laxa (hyperelastica)
Dermatoglyphic anomalies
Inherited keratosis palmaris et plantaris
Keratosis follicularis [Darier-White]
Excludes1: Ehlers-Danlos syndromes (Q79.6-)

Q82

Excludes1: acrodermatitis enteropathica (E83.2)
congenital erythropoietic porphyria (E80.0)
pilonidal cyst or sinus (L05.-)
Sturge-Weber (-Dimitri) syndrome (Q85.89)

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