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ICD-10-CM Code for Cluster headache syndrome, unspecified G44.00

ICD-10 code G44.00 for Cluster headache syndrome, unspecified is a medical classification as listed by WHO under the range - Diseases of the nervous system .

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Official Long Descriptor

Cluster headache syndrome, unspecified
Ciliary neuralgia
Cluster headache NOS
Histamine cephalgia
Lower half migraine
Migrainous neuralgia

G44

Excludes1: headache NOS (R51.9)

Excludes2: atypical facial pain (G50.1)
headache due to lumbar puncture (G97.1)
migraines (G43.-)
trigeminal neuralgia (G50.0)

 
G44.00 Cluster headache syndrome, unspecified
Child Code
Cluster headache syndrome, unspecified, intractable
Child Code
Cluster headache syndrome, unspecified, not intractable

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