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ICD-10-CM Code for Incomplete defecation R15.0

ICD-10 code R15.0 for Incomplete defecation 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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Official Long Descriptor

Incomplete defecation
Excludes1: constipation (K59.0-)
fecal impaction (K56.41)

R15

Includes: encopresis NOS

Excludes1: fecal incontinence of nonorganic origin (F98.1)

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