[What is concealed behind nonspecific emotional disorders (F93.8/9)--a diagnostic comparison with reference to 4 diagnostic codes of ICD-10].

Psychiatric diagnoses of three patient groups attending a clinical service in 1992 and 1993 were compared: children with rather inspecific diagnoses F93.8 and F93.9, children with specific diagnoses (f93.0 to F93.3 and children without psychiatric disorders. Data were gathered by the clinical documentation based on WHO recommendation. Result was a difference between the specific group and the inspecific group due to the psychopathological evidence. Further the variables of the fifth axis of MAS were analysed.