ICD-10-PCS code structure

Section:
  0 = Medical and Surgical

Body System:
  0 = Central Nervous System and Cranial Nerves

Root Operation:


See Terms used in Medical and Surgical

The 4th character refers to the body part or body region.

Drainage

Taking or letting out fluids and/or gases from a body part

  • 009L - Abducens Nerve

    Includes:
    • Sixth cranial nerve
  • 009R - Accessory Nerve

    Includes:
    • Eleventh cranial nerve
  • 009N - Acoustic Nerve

    Includes:
    • Cochlear nerve
    • Eighth cranial nerve
    • Scarpa's (vestibular) ganglion
    • Spiral ganglion
    • Vestibular (Scarpa's) ganglion
    • Vestibular nerve
    • Vestibulocochlear nerve
  • 0098 - Basal Ganglia

    Includes:
    • Basal nuclei
    • Claustrum
    • Corpus striatum
    • Globus pallidus
    • Substantia nigra
    • Subthalamic nucleus
  • 0090 - Brain

    Includes:
    • Cerebrum
    • Corpus callosum
    • Encephalon
  • 009C - Cerebellum

    Includes:
    • Culmen
  • 0097 - Cerebral Hemisphere

    Includes:
    • Frontal lobe
    • Occipital lobe
    • Parietal lobe
    • Temporal lobe
  • 0091 - Cerebral Meninges

    Includes:
    • Arachnoid mater, intracranial
    • Leptomeninges, intracranial
    • Pia mater, intracranial
  • 0096 - Cerebral Ventricle

    Includes:
    • Aqueduct of Sylvius
    • Cerebral aqueduct (Sylvius)
    • Choroid plexus
    • Ependyma
    • Foramen of Monro (intraventricular)
    • Fourth ventricle
    • Interventricular foramen (Monro)
    • Left lateral ventricle
    • Right lateral ventricle
    • Third ventricle
  • 009W - Cervical Spinal Cord

    Includes:
    • Dorsal root ganglion
  • 0092 - Dura Mater

    Includes:
    • Diaphragma sellae
    • Dura mater, intracranial
    • Falx cerebri
    • Tentorium cerebelli
  • 0093 - Epidural Space, Intracranial

    Includes:
    • Extradural space, intracranial
  • 009M - Facial Nerve

    Includes:
    • Chorda tympani
    • Geniculate ganglion
    • Greater superficial petrosal nerve
    • Nerve to the stapedius
    • Parotid plexus
    • Posterior auricular nerve
    • Seventh cranial nerve
    • Submandibular ganglion
  • 009P - Glossopharyngeal Nerve

    Includes:
    • Carotid sinus nerve
    • Ninth cranial nerve
    • Tympanic nerve
  • 009S - Hypoglossal Nerve

    Includes:
    • Twelfth cranial nerve
  • 009A - Hypothalamus

    Includes:
    • Mammillary body
  • 009Y - Lumbar Spinal Cord

    Includes:
    • Cauda equina
    • Conus medullaris
    • Dorsal root ganglion
  • 009D - Medulla Oblongata

    Includes:
    • Myelencephalon
  • 009H - Oculomotor Nerve

    Includes:
    • Third cranial nerve
  • 009F - Olfactory Nerve

    Includes:
    • First cranial nerve
    • Olfactory bulb
  • 009G - Optic Nerve

    Includes:
    • Optic chiasma
    • Second cranial nerve
  • 009B - Pons

    Includes:
    • Apneustic center
    • Basis pontis
    • Locus ceruleus
    • Pneumotaxic center
    • Pontine tegmentum
    • Superior olivary nucleus
  • 009U - Spinal Canal

    Includes:
    • Epidural space, spinal
    • Extradural space, spinal
    • Subarachnoid space, spinal
    • Subdural space, spinal
    • Vertebral canal
  • 009T - Spinal Meninges

    Includes:
    • Arachnoid mater, spinal
    • Denticulate (dentate) ligament
    • Dura mater, spinal
    • Filum terminale
    • Leptomeninges, spinal
    • Pia mater, spinal
  • 0095 - Subarachnoid Space, Intracranial

  • 0094 - Subdural Space, Intracranial

  • 0099 - Thalamus

    Includes:
    • Epithalamus
    • Geniculate nucleus
    • Metathalamus
    • Pulvinar
  • 009X - Thoracic Spinal Cord

    Includes:
    • Dorsal root ganglion
  • 009K - Trigeminal Nerve

    Includes:
    • Fifth cranial nerve
    • Gasserian ganglion
    • Mandibular nerve
    • Maxillary nerve
    • Ophthalmic nerve
    • Trifacial nerve
  • 009J - Trochlear Nerve

    Includes:
    • Fourth cranial nerve
  • 009Q - Vagus Nerve

    Includes:
    • Anterior vagal trunk
    • Pharyngeal plexus
    • Pneumogastric nerve
    • Posterior vagal trunk
    • Pulmonary plexus
    • Recurrent laryngeal nerve
    • Superior laryngeal nerve
    • Tenth cranial nerve