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R59

Enlarged lymph nodes

Non-billableCategory

Chapter: 18. Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified

Section: R50-R69 - General symptoms and signs

Coding Guidelines

Includes

  • swollen glands

Excludes1 (Mutually Exclusive)

These codes should never be used together with R59

  • I88.9 - lymphadenitis NOS (I88.9)
  • acute lymphadenitis (L04.-)
  • I88.1 - chronic lymphadenitis (I88.1)
  • I88.0 - mesenteric (acute) (chronic) lymphadenitis (I88.0)

Specific Codes (3)

R59.0Billable

Localized enlarged lymph nodes

R59.1Billable

Generalized enlarged lymph nodes

R59.9Billable

Enlarged lymph nodes, unspecified

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