Syphilis of liver and other viscera

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.

Valid FY2016 onwards.

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 Syphilis of liver and other viscera

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.

Omentitis
Epiploitis
Hepatomegaly
Lues, luetic
Enteroperitonitis
Lesion > syphilitic
Tumefaction > liver
Irritation > peritoneum
Disease, diseased > hepatic
Stenosis, stenotic > rectum
Ascites > due to > hepatitis
Disease, diseased > venereal
Treponema pallidum infection
Enlargement, enlarged > liver
Cirrhosis, cirrhotic > hepatic
Disease, diseased > syphilitic
Cirrhosis, cirrhotic > atrophic
Pancreatitis > recurrent > acute
Hypertrophy, hypertrophic > hepatic
Treponematosis > due to > T. pallidum
Infection, infected, infective > specific
Infection, infected, infective > peritoneal
Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > liver
Ascites > due to > hepatitis > chronic active
Hypertrophy, hypertrophic > liver > cirrhotic
Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > pancreas
Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > peritoneum
Disease, diseased > sexually transmitted > syphilis
Infection, infected, infective > Treponema pallidum
Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > retroperitoneal
Disease, diseased > liver > end stage > due to hepatitis
Gumma > liver
Hepar lobatum
Ascites > syphilitic
Hepatitis > syphilitic
Peritonitis > syphilitic
Pancreatitis > syphilitic
Syphilis, syphilitic > anus
Syphilis, syphilitic > colon
Syphilis, syphilitic > liver

Showing 40 of 52 index phrases.

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
A52.71	Late syphilitic oculopathy	Valid
A52.72	Syphilis of lung and bronchus	Valid
A52.73	Symptomatic late syphilis of other respiratory organs	Valid
A52.75	Syphilis of kidney and ureter	Valid
A52.76	Other genitourinary symptomatic late syphilis	Valid
A52.77	Syphilis of bone and joint	Valid
A52.78	Syphilis of other musculoskeletal tissue	Valid
A52.79	Other symptomatic late syphilis	Valid