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ICD-10-CM Code for Dizziness and giddiness R42

ICD-10 code R42 for Dizziness and giddiness 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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Dizziness and giddiness
Light-headedness
Vertigo NOS
Excludes1: vertiginous syndromes (H81.-)
vertigo from infrasound (T75.23)

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