Chapter 6

G00–G99: Diseases of the Nervous System

Diseases of the Nervous System diagnostic classification updated for 2026.

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Excludes2(Not included here. Code separately if applicable.)
  • 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)
Internal Codes
  • G93.32

    Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome

  • G93.39

    Other post infection and related fatigue syndromes

  • G93.4

    Other and unspecified encephalopathy

  • G93.40

    Encephalopathy, unspecified

  • G93.41

    Metabolic encephalopathy

  • G93.42

    Megalencephalic leukoencephalopathy with subcortical cysts

  • G93.43

    Leukoencephalopathy with calcifications and cysts

  • G93.44

    Adult-onset leukodystrophy with axonal spheroids

  • G93.45

    Developmental and epileptic encephalopathy

  • G93.49

    Other encephalopathy

  • G93.5

    Compression of brain

  • G93.6

    Cerebral edema

  • G93.7

    Reye's syndrome

  • G93.8

    Other specified disorders of brain

  • G93.81

    Temporal sclerosis

  • G93.82

    Brain death

  • G93.89

    Other specified disorders of brain

  • G93.9

    Disorder of brain, unspecified

  • G94

    Other disorders of brain in diseases classified elsewhere

  • G95

    Other and unspecified diseases of spinal cord

  • G95.0

    Syringomyelia and syringobulbia

  • G95.1

    Vascular myelopathies

  • G95.11

    Acute infarction of spinal cord (embolic) (nonembolic)

  • G95.19

    Other vascular myelopathies

  • G95.2

    Other and unspecified cord compression

  • G95.20

    Unspecified cord compression

  • G95.29

    Other cord compression

  • G95.8

    Other specified diseases of spinal cord

  • G95.81

    Conus medullaris syndrome

  • G95.89

    Other specified diseases of spinal cord

  • G95.9

    Disease of spinal cord, unspecified

  • G96

    Other disorders of central nervous system

  • G96.0

    Cerebrospinal fluid leak

  • G96.00

    Cerebrospinal fluid leak, unspecified

  • G96.01

    Cranial cerebrospinal fluid leak, spontaneous

  • G96.02

    Spinal cerebrospinal fluid leak, spontaneous

  • G96.08

    Other cranial cerebrospinal fluid leak

  • G96.09

    Other spinal cerebrospinal fluid leak

  • G96.1

    Disorders of meninges, not elsewhere classified

  • G96.11

    Dural tear

  • G96.12

    Meningeal adhesions (cerebral) (spinal)

  • G96.19

    Other disorders of meninges, not elsewhere classified

  • G96.191

    Perineural cyst

  • G96.198

    Other disorders of meninges, not elsewhere classified

  • G96.8

    Other specified disorders of central nervous system

  • G96.81

    Intracranial hypotension

  • G96.810

    Intracranial hypotension, unspecified

  • G96.811

    Intracranial hypotension, spontaneous

  • G96.819

    Other intracranial hypotension

  • G96.89

    Other specified disorders of central nervous system

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