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Late congenital syphilitic encephalitis
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 Late congenital syphilitic encephalitis
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.
- Myelitis
- Phrenitis
- Cephalitis
- Cerebritis
- Ependymitis
- Cerebellitis
- Fever > brain
- Ventriculitis
- Febris, febrile
- Meningomyelitis
- Mesencephalitis
- Myelomeningitis
- Parencephalitis
- Syringomyelitis
- Fever > cerebral
- Radiculomyelitis
- Encephalomyelitis
- Meningocerebritis
- Myeloencephalitis
- Encephalomeningitis
- Meningoencephalitis
- Meningomyeloneuritis
- Encephalomeningomyelitis
- Encephalomyelomeningitis
- Meningoencephalomyelitis
- Poliomeningoencephalitis
- Fever > viral hemorrhagic
- Myelopathy > in > infection
- Disease, diseased > cerebral
- Infection, infected, infective > brain
- Disease, diseased > brain > inflammatory
- Disease, diseased > cerebellar, cerebellum
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > brain
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > cerebral
- Infection, infected, infective > spinal cord NOS
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > spinal > cord
- Encephalitis > in > syphilis > congenital
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| A50.40 | Late congenital neurosyphilis, unspecified | Valid |
| A50.41 | Late congenital syphilitic meningitis | Valid |
| A50.43 | Late congenital syphilitic polyneuropathy | Valid |
| A50.44 | Late congenital syphilitic optic nerve atrophy | Valid |
| A50.45 | Juvenile general paresis | Valid |
| A50.49 | Other late congenital neurosyphilis | Valid |