ICD-10-CM › A00-B99 › A50-A64 › A52.1 Symptomatic neurosyphilis › A52.11
Tabes dorsalis
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 Tabes dorsalis
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.
- Pain > root
- Radiculitis
- Lues, luetic
- Pain > radicular
- Pain > spinal root
- Lesion > syphilitic
- Neuritis > brachial
- Neuritis > nerve root
- Neuritis > spinal root
- Syndrome > radicular NEC
- Disease, diseased > spine
- Disease, diseased > venereal
- Treponema pallidum infection
- Disease, diseased > syphilitic
- Sclerosis, sclerotic > choroid
- Disorder > choroid > degeneration
- Treponematosis > due to > T. pallidum
- Irritation > spinal > nerve > root NEC
- Disease, diseased > vertebra, vertebral
- Neuropathy, neuropathic > radicular NEC
- Infection, infected, infective > specific
- Degeneration, degenerative > chorioretinal
- Degeneration, degenerative > Bruch's membrane
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > nerve NEC
- Disease, diseased > sexually transmitted > syphilis
- Infection, infected, infective > Treponema pallidum
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative > luetic
- Pel's crisis
- Crisis > Pel's
- Crisis > tabetic
- Tabes, tabetic > bone
- Tabes, tabetic > dorsalis
- Radiculopathy > syphilitic
- Duchenne's > locomotor ataxia
- Syphilis, syphilitic > ataxia
- Neurosyphilis > tabes, tabetic
- Ataxia, ataxy, ataxic > locomotor
- Syphilis, syphilitic > late > tabes
- Syphilis, syphilitic > tabetic type
- Syphilis, syphilitic > tabes dorsalis
Showing 40 of 54 index phrases.
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| A52.10 | Symptomatic neurosyphilis, unspecified | Valid |
| A52.12 | Other cerebrospinal syphilis | Valid |
| A52.13 | Late syphilitic meningitis | Valid |
| A52.14 | Late syphilitic encephalitis | Valid |
| A52.15 | Late syphilitic neuropathy | Valid |
| A52.16 | Charcot's arthropathy (tabetic) | Valid |
| A52.17 | General paresis | Valid |
| A52.19 | Other symptomatic neurosyphilis | Valid |