ICD-10-CM › A00-B99 › A50-A64 › A52.1 Symptomatic neurosyphilis › A52.15
Late syphilitic neuropathy
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 syphilitic neuropathy
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
- Loss > hearing
- Problem > hearing
- Lesion > syphilitic
- Imperception auditory
- Disorder > ear > deafness
- Defect, defective > hearing
- Fatigue > auditory deafness
- Disease, diseased > venereal
- Treponema pallidum infection
- Pallor > optic disc, temporal
- Disease, diseased > syphilitic
- Impaired, impairment > hearing
- Sclerosis, sclerotic > choroid
- Diminished, diminution > hearing
- Disorder > choroid > degeneration
- Treponematosis > due to > T. pallidum
- 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
- Deafness > syphilitic
- Neuritis > syphilitic
- Polyneuropathy > syphilitic
- Neurosyphilis > optic atrophy
- Polyneuropathy > in > syphilis
- Syphilis, syphilitic > neuritis
- Neuritis > acoustic > syphilitic
- Syphilis, syphilitic > nerve palsy
- Syphilis, syphilitic > optic nerve
- Neuritis > retrobulbar > syphilitic
- Syphilis, syphilitic > eighth nerve
- Syphilis, syphilitic > cranial nerve
- Syphilis, syphilitic > seventh nerve
- Syphilis, syphilitic > acoustic nerve
- Atrophy, atrophic > optic > syphilitic
- Syphilis, syphilitic > cerebral > nerves
- Paralysis, paralytic > nerve > syphilitic
Showing 40 of 49 index phrases.
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| A52.10 | Symptomatic neurosyphilis, unspecified | Valid |
| A52.11 | Tabes dorsalis | Valid |
| A52.12 | Other cerebrospinal syphilis | Valid |
| A52.13 | Late syphilitic meningitis | Valid |
| A52.14 | Late syphilitic encephalitis | Valid |
| A52.16 | Charcot's arthropathy (tabetic) | Valid |
| A52.17 | General paresis | Valid |
| A52.19 | Other symptomatic neurosyphilis | Valid |