ICD-10-CM › G00-G99 › G50-G59 › G52 Disorders of other cranial nerves › G52.2
Disorders of vagus nerve
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 Disorders of vagus nerve
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 G52 Disorders of other cranial nerves
Excludes2 - not included here
- disorders of acoustic [8th] nerve (H93.3)
- disorders of optic [2nd] nerve (H46, H47.0)
- paralytic strabismus due to nerve palsy (H49.0-H49.2)
Inherited from the G50-G59 section Nerve, nerve root and plexus disorders (G50-G59)
Excludes1 - never coded here
- current traumatic nerve, nerve root and plexus disorders - see Injury, nerve by body region
- neuralgia NOS (M79.2)
- neuritis NOS (M79.2)
- peripheral neuritis in pregnancy (O26.82-)
- radiculitis NOS (M54.1-)
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.
- Neuromyalgia
- Neurophthisis
- Neurosclerosis
- Endoperineuritis
- Musculoneuralgia
- Pain > nerve NEC
- Perineuritis NEC
- Irritation > nerve
- Compression > nerve
- Pain > neuromuscular
- Palsy > cranial nerve
- Disorder > cranial nerve
- Atrophy, atrophic > nerve
- Disease, diseased > nerve
- Irritation > cranial nerve
- Disorder > nerve > cerebral
- Disturbance > cranial nerve
- Mononeuritis > cranial nerve
- Paralysis, paralytic > nerve
- Compression > nerve > cranial
- Disturbance > cerebral > nerve
- Neuritis > peripheral > single
- Sclerosis, sclerotic > choroid
- Disorder > choroid > degeneration
- Degeneration, degenerative > nerve
- Neuropathy, neuropathic > ischemic
- Neuralgia, neuralgic > nerve, cranial
- Degeneration, degenerative > Wallerian
- Neuralgia, neuralgic > cranial > nerve
- Degeneration, degenerative > chorioretinal
- Degeneration, degenerative > Bruch's membrane
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > nerve NEC
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > cranial nerve
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > spinal > nerve
- Vagotonia
- Neuritis > vagus
- Lesion > vagus nerve
- Disorder > nerve > vagus
- Lesion > laryngeal nerve
- Neuritis > pneumogastric
Showing 40 of 55 index phrases.
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| G52.0 | Disorders of olfactory nerve | Valid |
| G52.1 | Disorders of glossopharyngeal nerve | Valid |
| G52.3 | Disorders of hypoglossal nerve | Valid |
| G52.7 | Disorders of multiple cranial nerves | Valid |
| G52.8 | Disorders of other specified cranial nerves | Valid |
| G52.9 | Cranial nerve disorder, unspecified | Valid |