ICD-10-CM › G00-G99 › G50-G59 › G57.0 Lesion of sciatic nerve › G57.03
G57.03
Lesion of sciatic nerve, bilateral lower limbs
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 2017 to now.
- FY2017 Added to the code set Lesion of sciatic nerve, bilateral lower limbs
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 G57 Mononeuropathies of lower limb
Excludes1 - never coded here
- current traumatic nerve disorder - see nerve injury by body region
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.
- Neurophthisis
- Neurosclerosis
- Endoperineuritis
- Irritation > nerve
- Compression > nerve
- Syndrome > pyriformis
- Change > trophic > leg
- Vasospasm > nerve > leg
- Angiospasm > nerve > leg
- Atrophy, atrophic > nerve
- Disease, diseased > nerve
- Paralysis, paralytic > nerve
- Compression > nerve > leg NEC
- Compression > nerve > sciatic
- Disorder > nerve > lower limb
- Disorder > nerve > sciatic NEC
- Neuritis > peripheral > single
- Degeneration, degenerative > nerve
- Neuropathy, neuropathic > ischemic
- Adhesions, adhesive > sciatic nerve
- Degeneration, degenerative > Wallerian
- Mononeuropathy > lower limb > sciatic nerve
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > nerve NEC
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > spinal > nerve
- Lesion > sciatic nerve
- Lesion > nerve > sciatic
- Mononeuritis > sciatic nerve
- Neuropathy, neuropathic > sciatic
- Paralysis, paralytic > sciatic nerve
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| G57.00 | Lesion of sciatic nerve, unspecified lower limb | Valid |
| G57.01 | Lesion of sciatic nerve, right lower limb | Valid |
| G57.02 | Lesion of sciatic nerve, left lower limb | Valid |