ICD-10-CM code "G44.059": Short lasting unilateral neuralgiform headache with conjunctival injection and tearing (SUNCT), not intractable (2024)

Overview

Excludes

  1. Diseases of the nervous system (G00-G99)

    Type 2certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)

    Type 2certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)

    Type 2complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)

    Type 2congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)

    Type 2endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)

    Type 2injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)

    Type 2neoplasms (C00-D49)

    Type 2symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)

  2. Episodic and paroxysmal disorders (G40-G47)
  3. Other headache syndromes (G44)

    Type 1headache NOS (R51.9)

    Type 2atypical facial pain (G50.1)

    Type 2headache due to lumbar puncture (G97.1)

    Type 2migraines (G43.-)

    Type 2trigeminal neuralgia (G50.0)

  4. Cluster headaches and other trigeminal autonomic cephalgias (TAC) (G44.0)
  5. Short lasting unilateral neuralgiform headache with conjunctival injection and tearing (SUNCT) (G44.05)
  6. Short lasting unilateral neuralgiform headache with conjunctival injection and tearing (SUNCT), not intractable (G44.059)