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ICD-10-CM Code for Kwashiorkor E40

ICD-10 code E40 for Kwashiorkor is a medical classification as listed by WHO under the range - Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases .

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Kwashiorkor
Severe malnutrition with nutritional edema with dyspigmentation of skin and hai
Excludes1: marasmic kwashiorkor (E42)

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