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ICD-10-CM Code for Slurred speech R47.81

ICD-10 code R47.81 for Slurred speech 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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Slurred speech

R47.8

Excludes1: dysarthria following cerebrovascular disease (I69. with final characters -28)

R47

Excludes1: autism (F84.0)
cluttering (F80.81)
specific developmental disorders of speech and language (F80.-)
stuttering (F80.81)

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