ICD-10-CM › G00-G99 › G50-G59 › G57.1 Meralgia paresthetica › G57.12
Meralgia paresthetica, left lower limb
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 Meralgia paresthetica, left side
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FY2011
Draft description revised draft
Meralgia paresthetica, left sideMeralgia paresthetica, left lower limb
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.
- Vasospasm
- Angiospasm
- Neurophthisis
- Pinched nerve
- Neurosclerosis
- Syndrome > Roth
- Endoperineuritis
- Bernhardt disease
- Entrapment > nerve
- Irritation > nerve
- Compression > nerve
- Syndrome > entrapment
- Change > trophic > leg
- Vasospasm > nerve > leg
- Angiospasm > nerve > leg
- Disease, diseased > Roth
- Atrophy, atrophic > nerve
- Disease, diseased > nerve
- Syndrome > Bernhardt-Roth
- Paralysis, paralytic > nerve
- Compression > nerve > leg NEC
- Disease, diseased > Bernhardt
- Disorder > nerve > entrapment
- Disorder > nerve > lower limb
- Neuritis > peripheral > single
- Degeneration, degenerative > nerve
- Neuropathy, neuropathic > ischemic
- Degeneration, degenerative > Wallerian
- Disorder > nerve > lateral > cutaneous of thigh
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > nerve NEC
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > spinal > nerve
- Meralgia paresthetica
- Paresis > Bernhardt's
- Paresthesia > Bernhardt
- Syndrome > lateral > cutaneous nerve of thigh
- Mononeuritis > lateral > cutaneous nerve of thigh
- Mononeuropathy > lower limb > meralgia paresthetica
- Neuropathy, neuropathic > entrapment > lateral cutaneous nerve of thigh
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| G57.10 | Meralgia paresthetica, unspecified lower limb | Valid |
| G57.11 | Meralgia paresthetica, right lower limb | Valid |
| G57.13 | Meralgia paresthetica, bilateral lower limbs | Valid |