ICD-10-CM › A00-B99 › A50-A64 › A50.0 Early congenital syphilis, symptomatic › A50.01
Early congenital syphilitic oculopathy
ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.
What has happened to this code
Every change the publisher made, from 2007 to now. Entries marked draft are from the pre-implementation releases: ICD-10 took effect on 1 October 2015, so nothing before FY2016 was ever valid on a claim.
- FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Early congenital syphilitic oculopathy
Official coding rules
Published by CDC for FY2027. A rule attached to a category binds every code beneath it, so the rules inherited from this code's ancestors are shown with the code they come from.
Inherited from the A50-A64 section Infections with a predominantly sexual mode of transmission (A50-A64)
Excludes1 - never coded here
- nonspecific and nongonococcal urethritis (N34.1)
- Reiter's disease (M02.3-)
Excludes2 - not included here
- human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] disease (B20)
How CDC's index refers to this code
Wording from the official alphabetic index. Much of it appears nowhere in the code description, which is why a search for the everyday phrase so often finds nothing.
- Choroiditis
- Lues, luetic
- Heredosyphilis
- Neuroretinitis
- Choroidoretinitis
- Dacryopericystitis
- Retinitis > luetic
- Abscess > tear duct
- Caruncle > lacrimal
- Lesion > syphilitic
- Uveitis > posterior
- Neurochorioretinitis
- Dacryocystoblennorrhea
- Boil > lacrimal > passages
- Disease, diseased > venereal
- Treponema pallidum infection
- Abscess > lacrimal > caruncle
- Abscess > lacrimal > passages
- Cellulitis > lacrimal passages
- Disease, diseased > syphilitic
- Furuncle > lacrimal > passages
- Syphilis, syphilitic > newborn
- Carbuncle > lacrimal > passages
- Syphilis, syphilitic > infantum
- Syphilis, syphilitic > inherited
- Syphilis, syphilitic > hereditary
- Syphilis, syphilitic > neonatorum
- Disease, diseased > eye > syphilitic
- Treponematosis > due to > T. pallidum
- Disorder > lacrimal system > inflammation
- Infection, infected, infective > specific
- Syphilis, syphilitic > age under 2 years NOS
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > retina
- Disease, diseased > sexually transmitted > syphilis
- Infection, infected, infective > Treponema pallidum
- Infection, infected, infective > lacrimal > passages
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > lacrimal > passages
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > uveal tract NOS > posterior
- Syphilis, syphilitic > congenital > early, or less than 2 years after birth NEC > with manifestations
- Iritis > syphilitic > congenital
Showing 40 of 49 index phrases.
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| A50.02 | Early congenital syphilitic osteochondropathy | Valid |
| A50.03 | Early congenital syphilitic pharyngitis | Valid |
| A50.04 | Early congenital syphilitic pneumonia | Valid |
| A50.05 | Early congenital syphilitic rhinitis | Valid |
| A50.06 | Early cutaneous congenital syphilis | Valid |
| A50.07 | Early mucocutaneous congenital syphilis | Valid |
| A50.08 | Early visceral congenital syphilis | Valid |
| A50.09 | Other early congenital syphilis, symptomatic | Valid |