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ICD-10-CM Code for Localized enlarged lymph nodes R59.0

ICD-10 code R59.0 for Localized enlarged lymph nodes 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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Localized enlarged lymph nodes

R59

Includes: swollen glands

Excludes1: lymphadenitis NOS (I88.9)
acute lymphadenitis (L04.-)
chronic lymphadenitis (I88.1)
mesenteric (acute) (chronic) lymphadenitis (I88.0)

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