ICD-10-CM › Q00-QA1 › Q20-Q28 › Q27.3 Arteriovenous malformation (peripheral) › Q27.32

Q27.32

Arteriovenous malformation of vessel of lower limb

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.

  1. FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Arteriovenous malformation of vessel of 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 Q27 Other congenital malformations of peripheral vascular system

Excludes2 - not included here

  • anomalies of cerebral and precerebral vessels (Q28.0-Q28.3)
  • anomalies of coronary vessels (Q24.5)
  • anomalies of pulmonary artery (Q25.5-Q25.7)
  • congenital retinal aneurysm (Q14.1)
  • hemangioma and lymphangioma (D18.-)

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.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
Q27.30 Arteriovenous malformation, site unspecified Valid
Q27.31 Arteriovenous malformation of vessel of upper limb Valid
Q27.33 Arteriovenous malformation of digestive system vessel Valid
Q27.34 Arteriovenous malformation of renal vessel Valid
Q27.39 Arteriovenous malformation, other site Valid