G06.0
Intracranial abscess and granuloma
Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 9 never code together
G00-G99chapter
Excludes2
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)P04-P96
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)A00-B99
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)O00-O9A
- congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)Q00-Q99
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)E00-E88
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)S00-T88
- neoplasms (C00-D49)C00-D49
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)R00-R94
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 8
G06.0code
Inclusion terms
- Brain [any part] abscess (embolic)
- Cerebellar abscess (embolic)
- Cerebral abscess (embolic)
- Intracranial epidural abscess or granuloma
- Intracranial extradural abscess or granuloma
- Intracranial subdural abscess or granuloma
- Otogenic abscess (embolic)
Index entries leading here 4
- Abscess (connective tissue) (embolic) (fistulous) (infective) (metastatic) (multiple) (pernicious) (pyogenic) (septic) L02.91
- brain (any part) (cystic) (otogenic) G06.0
- cerebellum, cerebellar G06.0
- cerebral (embolic) G06.0
- cranium G06.0
- epidural G06.2
- brain G06.0
- extradural G06.2
- brain G06.0
- intracranial G06.0
- otogenic G06.0
- sinus (accessory) (chronic) (nasal) — see also Sinusitis
- intracranial venous (any) G06.0
- subarachnoid G06.2
- brain G06.0
- subdural G06.2
- brain G06.0
- temporosphenoidal G06.0
- Infection, infected, infective (opportunistic) B99.9
- Suppuration, suppurative — see also condition
- Granuloma L92.9
Alongside this code 2 same parent — G06
Medications 1
MED-RT files conditions by MeSH, which carves the world differently from ICD-10. These are name matches on this code's description, offered as candidates — not as an assertion that they are this code.
Additional references
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