Diagnosis Code

G93.0 CEREBRAL CYSTS


Code Information

Diagnosis Code: G93.0

Short Description: Cerebral cysts

Long Description: Cerebral cysts

The code G93.0 is VALID for claim submission

Code Classification:

  • Diseases of the nervous system (G00–G99)
    • Other disorders of the nervous system (G89-G99)
      • Other disorders of brain (G93)
        • G93.0 Cerebral cysts

Code Version: 2022 ICD-10-CM


Synonyms

  • Acquired periventricular cyst
  • Acquired porencephaly
  • Acquired porencephaly
  • Acquired pseudoporencephaly
  • Arachnoid cyst
  • Arachnoid cyst of pituitary
  • Benign neoplasm of occipital lobe
  • Cerebellar infectious cyst
  • Cerebral arachnoid cyst
  • Cerebral cyst
  • Cerebroretinal microangiopathy with calcifications and cysts
  • Choroid plexus cyst
  • Colloid brain cyst
  • Cyst of pineal gland
  • Cyst of septum pellucidum
  • Cyst of spinal meninges
  • Cyst of spinal meninges
  • Cyst of spinal meninges
  • Dermoid cyst of brain
  • Dermoid cyst of occipital lobe
  • Ependymal cyst
  • Ependymal cyst of ventricle of brain
  • Epidermoid cyst of brain
  • Extradural spinal arachnoid cyst
  • Familial porencephaly
  • Germ cell tumor of the brain
  • Germ cell tumor of the brain
  • Infection causing cyst of central nervous system
  • Infection causing cyst of central nervous system
  • Infectious cyst of cerebral lobe
  • Intracranial infectious cyst
  • Intradural spinal arachnoid cyst
  • Leukoencephalopathy co-occurrent with bilateral anterior temporal lobe cysts
  • Leukoencephalopathy with calcifications and cysts
  • Meningeal cyst
  • Neoplasm of occipital lobe
  • Pituitary cyst
  • Porencephalic cyst
  • Porencephalic cyst
  • Porencephalic cyst
  • Posttraumatic porencephalic cyst of brain
  • Pseudoporencephaly
  • Small vessel cerebrovascular disease
  • Spinal arachnoid cyst
  • Traumatic arachnoid cyst
  • Traumatic cyst of leptomeninges

References to Index of Diseases and Injuries

The code G93.0 has the following ICD-10-CM references to the Index of Diseases and Injuries
  • Inclusion Terms:
    • Arachnoid cyst
    • Porencephalic cyst, acquired
  • Type 1 Excludes Notes:
    • acquired periventricular cysts of newborn (@P91.1*)
    • congenital cerebral cysts (@Q04.6*)

Crosswalk Information

ICD-10 Code ICD-9 Code ICD-9 Description
G93.0 Right Arrow 348.0 Cerebral cysts

This ICD-10 to ICD-9 data is based on the 2018 General Equivalency Mapping (GEM) files published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for informational purposes only. The data is not an ICD-10 conversion tool and doesn’t guarantee clinical accuracy.

Similar Codes

ICD-10 Code ICD-10 Description
G93 Other disorders of brain
G93.1 Anoxic brain damage, not elsewhere classified
G93.2 Benign intracranial hypertension
G93.3 Postviral and related fatigue syndromes
G93.31 Postviral fatigue syndrome
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 Megaloencephalic leukoencephalopathy with subcortical cysts
G93.43 Leukoencephalopathy with calcifications and cysts
G93.44 Adult-onset leukodystrophy with axonal spheroids
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


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