ICD-10-CM › A00-B99 › A50-A64 › A52.1 Symptomatic neurosyphilis › A52.12
Other cerebrospinal syphilis
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 Other cerebrospinal syphilis
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.
- Lues, luetic
- Palsy > brain
- Lesion > syphilitic
- Disease, diseased > venereal
- Treponema pallidum infection
- Disease, diseased > syphilitic
- Paralysis, paralytic > congenital
- Treponematosis > due to > T. pallidum
- Infection, infected, infective > specific
- Paralysis, paralytic > infantile > cerebral
- Paralysis, paralytic > spinal > congenital NEC
- Disease, diseased > sexually transmitted > syphilis
- Infection, infected, infective > Treponema pallidum
- Paralysis, paralytic > due to intracranial or spinal birth injury
- Tabes, tabetic > syphilis
- Palsy > cerebral > syphilitic
- Syphilis, syphilitic > spinal
- Tabes, tabetic > cerebrospinal
- Syphilis, syphilitic > cerebrospinal
- Syphilis, syphilitic > degeneration, spinal cord
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| A52.10 | Symptomatic neurosyphilis, unspecified | Valid |
| A52.11 | Tabes dorsalis | 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 |