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ICD-10-CM Code for Adult failure to thrive R62.7

ICD-10 code R62.7 for Adult failure to thrive 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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Adult failure to thrive

R62

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

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