A52.15 Late syphilitic neuropathy

Billable ICD-10-CM code, FY2026. Acts as a Complication or Comorbidity (CC) as a secondary diagnosis.

Applicable to

• Late syphilitic acoustic neuritis
• Late syphilitic optic (nerve) atrophy
• Late syphilitic polyneuropathy
• Late syphilitic retrobulbar neuritis

MS-DRG index

Defines the logic of DRG(s) 056-057 in MDC 01.

Approximate ICD-9-CM (GEMs)

• 094.84 Syphilitic optic atrophy (approximate)
• 094.85 Syphilitic retrobulbar neuritis (approximate)
• 094.86 Syphilitic acoustic neuritis (approximate)
• 094.89 Other specified neurosyphilis (approximate)
• 357.4 Polyneuropathy in other diseases classified elsewhere (approximate)

Code annotations containing back-references to A52.15

Back-references to A52.15

• Type 1 Excludes: G53 Cranial nerve disorders in diseases classified elsewhere ("multiple cranial nerve palsy in syphilis (A52.15)")
• Type 1 Excludes: G59 Mononeuropathy in diseases classified elsewhere ("syphilitic neuritis (A52.15)")
• Type 1 Excludes: H46.1 Retrobulbar neuritis ("syphilitic retrobulbar neuritis (A52.15)")
• Type 1 Excludes: H93.3 Disorders of acoustic nerve ("syphilitic acoustic neuritis (A52.15)")
• Type 1 Excludes: H94.0 Acoustic neuritis in infectious and parasitic diseases classified elsewhere ("syphilis (A52.15)")

Back-references to A52.1

• Type 1 Excludes: G99.8 Other specified disorders of nervous system in diseases classified elsewhere ("syphilis (A52.1-)")

Back-references to A52

• Type 2 Excludes: N34 Urethritis and urethral syndrome ("urethritis in diseases with a predominantly sexual mode of transmission (A50-A64)")

Diagnosis Index entries for A52.15

• Atrophy, atrophic (of) › nerve › optic (papillomacular bundle) › syphilitic (late)
• Atrophy, atrophic (of) › optic (nerve) › syphilitic (late)
• Deafness (acquired) (complete) (hereditary) (partial) › syphilitic
• Disturbance (s) › neuromuscular mechanism (eye), due to syphilis
• Neuritis (rheumatoid) › acoustic (nerve) › syphilitic
• Neuritis (rheumatoid) › retrobulbar › in (due to) › late syphilis
• Neuritis (rheumatoid) › retrobulbar › syphilitic
• Neuritis (rheumatoid) › syphilitic
• Neurosyphilis (arrested) (early) (gumma) (late) (latent) (recurrent) (relapse) › optic atrophy
• Paralysis, paralytic (complete) (incomplete) › nerve › syphilitic
• Polyneuropathy (peripheral) › in (due to) › syphilis (late)
• Polyneuropathy (peripheral) › syphilitic (late)
• Syphilis, syphilitic (acquired) › acoustic nerve
• Syphilis, syphilitic (acquired) › cerebral › nerves (multiple palsies)
• Syphilis, syphilitic (acquired) › cranial nerve
• Syphilis, syphilitic (acquired) › cranial nerve › multiple palsies
• Syphilis, syphilitic (acquired) › ear › inner › nerve (eighth)
• Syphilis, syphilitic (acquired) › ear › inner › neurorecurrence
• Syphilis, syphilitic (acquired) › eighth nerve (neuritis)
• Syphilis, syphilitic (acquired) › nerve palsy (any cranial nerve)
• Syphilis, syphilitic (acquired) › nerve palsy (any cranial nerve) › multiple
• Syphilis, syphilitic (acquired) › neuritis
• Syphilis, syphilitic (acquired) › neuritis › acoustic
• Syphilis, syphilitic (acquired) › optic nerve (atrophy) (neuritis) (papilla)
• Syphilis, syphilitic (acquired) › retrobulbar neuritis
• Syphilis, syphilitic (acquired) › seventh nerve (paralysis)

Nearby codes

• A52.10 Symptomatic neurosyphilis, unspecified
• A52.11 Tabes dorsalis
• A52.12 Other cerebrospinal syphilis
• A52.13 Late syphilitic meningitis
• A52.14 Late syphilitic encephalitis
• A52.15 Late syphilitic neuropathy (this code)
• A52.16 Charcot's arthropathy (tabetic)
• A52.17 General paresis
• A52.19 Other symptomatic neurosyphilis
• A52.2 Asymptomatic neurosyphilis
• A52.3 Neurosyphilis, unspecified