ICD-10-CM › C00-D49 › C69-C72 › C72 Malignant neoplasm of spinal cord,... › C72.1
Malignant neoplasm of cauda equina
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 Malignant neoplasm of cauda equina
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 C72 Malignant neoplasm of spinal cord, cranial nerves and other parts of central nervous system
Excludes1 - never coded here
- malignant neoplasm of meninges (C70.-)
- malignant neoplasm of peripheral nerves and autonomic nervous system (C47.-)
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.
- Neoplasm, neoplastic > cauda equina
- Neoplasm, neoplastic > motor tract > cauda equina
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| C72.0 | Malignant neoplasm of spinal cord | Valid |
| C72.2 | Malignant neoplasm of olfactory nerve | Not billable |
| C72.3 | Malignant neoplasm of optic nerve | Not billable |
| C72.4 | Malignant neoplasm of acoustic nerve | Not billable |
| C72.5 | Malignant neoplasm of other and unspecified cranial nerves | Not billable |
| C72.9 | Malignant neoplasm of central nervous system, unspecified | Valid |