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Complications affecting other specified body systems, not elsewhere classified, hypertension (997.91)

ICD-9 code 997.91 for Complications affecting other specified body systems, not elsewhere classified, hypertension is a medical classification as listed by WHO under the range -COMPLICATIONS OF SURGICAL AND MEDICAL CARE, NOT ELSEWHERE CLASSIFIED (996-999).

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