ICD-10-CM Code for Difficulty in walking, not elsewhere classified R26.2

ICD-10 code R26.2 for Difficulty in walking, not elsewhere classified is a medical classification as listed by WHO under the range - Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified .

Official Long Descriptor

Difficulty in walking, not elsewhere classified

Excludes1: falling (R29.6)
unsteadiness on feet (R26.81)

R26

Excludes1: ataxia NOS (R27.0)
hereditary ataxia (G11.-)
locomotor (syphilitic) ataxia (A52.11)
immobility syndrome (paraplegic) (M62.3)

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