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ICD-10-CM Code for Pain localized to flank R10.A

ICD-10 code R10.A for Pain localized to flank is a medical classification as listed by WHO under the range - Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified .

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Official Long Descriptor

Pain localized to flank
Lateral abdomen pain
Lateral flank pain
Latus region pain
Excludes2: pain localized to other parts of lower abdomen (R10.3-)
pain localized to upper abdomen (R10.1-)

R10

Excludes1: renal colic (N23)

Excludes2: costovertebral (angle) tenderness (R39.85)
dorsalgia (M54.-)
flatulence and related conditions (R14.-)

 
R10.A Pain localized to flank
Child Code
Flank pain, unspecified side
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Flank pain, right side
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Flank pain, left side
Child Code
Flank pain, bilateral

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