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ICD-10-CM Code for Unspecified lack of expected normal physiological development in childhood R62.50

ICD-10 code R62.50 for Unspecified lack of expected normal physiological development in childhood 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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Unspecified lack of expected normal physiological development in childhood
Infantilism NOS

R62.5

Excludes1: HIV disease resulting in failure to thrive (B20)
physical retardation due to malnutrition (E45)

R62

Excludes1: delayed puberty (E30.0)
gonadal dysgenesis (Q99.1)
hypopituitarism (E23.0)

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