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ICD-10-CM Code for Food in esophagus T18.12

ICD-10 code T18.12 for Food in esophagus is a medical classification as listed by WHO under the range - Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes .

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Official Long Descriptor

Food in esophagus
Bones in esophagus
Seeds in esophagus

T18.1

Excludes2: foreign body in respiratory tract (T17.-)

T18

Excludes2: foreign body in pharynx (T17.2-)

 
T18.12 Food in esophagus
Child Code
Food in esophagus causing compression of trachea
Child Code
Food in esophagus causing other injury

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