Other lesions of median nerve
Non-billable header
G56.1 is a non-billable header code. Use one of the more specific codes below.
Excludes1
Not coded here — never report together with this code.
- current traumatic nerve, nerve root and plexus disorders - see Injury, nerve by body region (from G56)
- neuralgia NOS (M79.2) (from G56)
- neuritis NOS (M79.2) (from G56)
- peripheral neuritis in pregnancy (O26.82-) (from G56)
- radiculitis NOS (M54.1-) (from G56)
- current traumatic nerve disorder - see nerve injury by body region (from G56)
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96) (from G56)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99) (from G56)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A) (from G56)
- congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99) (from G56)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88) (from G56)
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88) (from G56)
- neoplasms (C00-D49) (from G56)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94) (from G56)
Also known as
- Lesion, nerve, median
- Mononeuritis, median nerve
- Neuritis, thenar
- Neuropathy, neuropathic, median nerve
- Palsy, median nerve
- Paralysis, paralytic, median nerve