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01.59 - Other Excision Or Destruction Of Lesion Or Tissue Of Brain


The ICD 9 Code for Other excision or destruction of lesion or tissue of brain is listed as 01.59.
Additional information concerning this code and description can be found below including ICD 10 crosswalks / GEMS and chapter information where available.

ICD 9 CM Volume 3 (PCS) Field Value
Procedure Code: 01.59
Description: Other excision or destruction of lesion or tissue of brain
Short Description: Other brain excision
Chapter: Operations on the nervous system
Subsection 1: Incision and excision of skull, brain, and cerebral meninges
ICD-10-PCS General Equivalence Mappings (GEMS):
ICD 10 PCS Code: 00500ZZ - Destruction of Brain, Open Approach (approximate)
ICD 10 PCS Code: 00503ZZ - Destruction of Brain, Percutaneous Approach (approximate)
ICD 10 PCS Code: 00504ZZ - Destruction of Brain, Percutaneous Endoscopic Approach (approximate)
ICD 10 PCS Code: 00B00ZZ - Excision of Brain, Open Approach (approximate)
ICD 10 PCS Code: 00B03ZZ - Excision of Brain, Percutaneous Approach (approximate)
ICD 10 PCS Code: 00B04ZZ - Excision of Brain, Percutaneous Endoscopic Approach (approximate)
ICD-9-CM Volume 3 (PCS) Siblings (same level / similar specificity) of 01.59:
01.51 - Excision of lesion or tissue of cerebral meninges
01.52 - Hemispherectomy
01.53 - Lobectomy of brain