G97.63
Postprocedural seroma of a nervous system organ or structure following a nervous system procedure
Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 9 never code together
G97code
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 1
- Complication (s) (from) (of)
- postprocedural — see also Complications, surgical procedure
- seroma (of)
- nervous system
- following nervous system procedure G97.63
- nervous system
- seroma (of)
- postprocedural — see also Complications, surgical procedure
Alongside this code 3 same parent — G97.6
Medications 5
1336 Nervous System Diseases drugs 131 Nervous System Neoplasms drugs 31 Trauma, Nervous System drugs 12 Nervous System Malformations drugs 693 Central Nervous System Diseases 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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