A52.17
General paresis
Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 8 never code together
A50-A64block
A00-B99chapter
Excludes1
- certain localized infections - see body system-related chapters
Excludes2
- carrier or suspected carrier of infectious disease (Z22.-)Z22.-
- infectious and parasitic diseases complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O98.-)O98.-
- infectious and parasitic diseases specific to the perinatal period (P35-P39)P35-P39
- influenza and other acute respiratory infections (J00-J22)J00-J22
Excludes1 — never code together. The excluded condition and this one are mutually exclusive.
Excludes2 — not included here, but the patient may have both. Code both when documented.
Instructional notes 3
Index entries leading here 15
- Paralysis, paralytic (complete) (incomplete) G83.9
- ataxic (hereditary) G11.9
- general (syphilitic) A52.17
- spinal (cord) G83.9
- atrophic (acute) — see also Poliomyelitis, paralytic
- spastic, syphilitic A52.17
- atrophic (acute) — see also Poliomyelitis, paralytic
- dementia A52.17
- Erb's syphilitic spastic spinal A52.17
- progressive (atrophic) (bulbar) (spinal) G12.22
- general A52.17
- general (progressive) (syphilitic) A52.17
- Lissauer's A52.17
- spastic G83.9
- syphilitic (spinal) A52.17
- with
- syphilis A52.17
- syphilitic spastic spinal (Erb's) A52.17
- ataxic (hereditary) G11.9
- Bayle's disease (general paresis) A52.17
- Paresis — see also Paralysis
- Syphilis, syphilitic (acquired) A53.9
- brain A52.17
- central nervous system (late) (recurrent) (relapse) (tertiary) A52.3
- sclerosis
- cerebral A52.17
- cerebral A52.17
- sclerosis A52.17
- dementia paralytica A52.17
- general A53.9
- paralysis A52.17
- paralysis A52.17
- general A52.17
- hemiparesis A52.17
- hemiplegia A52.17
- late A52.9
- paresis A52.17
- Lissauer's paralysis A52.17
- monoplegia A52.17
- paresis (general) A52.17
- pontine lesion A52.17
- spastic spinal paralysis A52.17
- taboparesis A52.17
- Convulsions (idiopathic) R56.9
- paretic A52.17
- Dementia (degenerative (primary)) (persisting) (unspecified severity) (without behavioral disturbance, psychotic disturbance, mood disturbance, and anxiety) F03.90
- Encephalopathy (acute) G93.40
- in (due to) (with)
- syphilis A52.17
- in (due to) (with)
- Erb's
- Paraplegia (lower) G82.20
- Neurosyphilis (arrested) (early) (gumma) (late) (latent) (recurrent) (relapse) A52.3
- Lissauer's paralysis A52.17
- Tabes, tabetic A52.10
- Tumor — see also Neoplasm, unspecified behavior, by site
- syphilitic, brain A52.17
- Taboparalysis A52.17
- Taboparesis (remission) A52.17
Alongside this code 8 same parent — A52.1
Additional references
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