G50-G59

Non-Billable

ChapterG00–G99

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Official Description

Nerve, nerve root and plexus disorders (G50-G59)

Metadata & Insights

Excludes2(Not included here)

certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
neoplasms (C00-D49)
symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)

Excludes1(Not 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-)

CH6Diseases of the nervous system (G00-G99)

G50-G59Nerve, nerve root and plexus disorders (G50-G59)

G50Disorders of trigeminal nerve

G51Facial nerve disorders

G52Disorders of other cranial nerves

G53Cranial nerve disorders in diseases classified elsewhere

G54Nerve root and plexus disorders

G55Nerve root and plexus compressions in diseases classified elsewhere

G56Mononeuropathies of upper limb

G57Mononeuropathies of lower limb

G58Other mononeuropathies

G59Mononeuropathy in diseases classified elsewhere

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Diseases of the nervous system (G00-G99)

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