G37.5
Concentric sclerosis [Balo] of central nervous system
Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 8 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
Excludes2 — not included here, but the patient may have both. Code both when documented.
Instructional notes
No further instructional notes apply.
Index entries leading here 4
- Balo's disease (concentric sclerosis) G37.5
- Sclerosis, sclerotic
- concentric (Balo) G37.5
- Greenfield's disease
- meaning
- concentric sclerosis (encephalitis periaxialis concentrica) G37.5
- meaning
- Encephalitis (chronic) (hemorrhagic) (idiopathic) (nonepidemic) (spurious) (subacute) G04.90
- periaxialis (concentrica) (diffuse) G37.5
Alongside this code 7 same parent — G37
G37.0 Diffuse sclerosis of central nervous system G37.1 Central demyelination of corpus callosum G37.2 Central pontine myelinolysis G37.3 Acute transverse myelitis in demyelinating disease of cnsl G37.4 Subacute necrotizing myelitis of central nervous system G37.8 Oth demyelinating diseases of central nervous system category G37.9 Demyelinating disease of central nervous system, unspecified
Medications 5
693 Central Nervous System Diseases drugs 80 Central Nervous System Infections drugs 55 Central Nervous System Neoplasms drugs 6 Vasculitis, Central Nervous System drugs 1 Central Nervous System Helminthiasis drugs
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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