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ICD-10-CM Code for Other nonspecific symptoms peculiar to infancy R68.19

ICD-10 code R68.19 for Other nonspecific symptoms peculiar to infancy 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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Other nonspecific symptoms peculiar to infancy

R68.1

Excludes1: colic, infantile (R10.83)
neonatal cerebral irritability (P91.3)
teething syndrome (K00.7)

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