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A 61-year-old female status post ileojejunal bypass with reversal and sleeve gastrectomy complicated by multiple enterocutaneous fistulas presents due to an enteric fistula that was treated on thre...
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A patient with squamous cell carcinoma of the glans penis had a total penectomy and perineal urethrostomy. During surgery, the urethra was dissected out at the shaft of the penis, then divided and ...
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A patient was found to have severe mitral regurgitation and subsequently underwent a radical repair of mitral valve with quadrangular resection of the P2 scallop (posterior leaflet) with chordal tr...
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A patient presented due to a large umbilical hernia that was easily reduced manually. What is the appropriate root operation for manual reduction of a hernia? What body part value should we report ...
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The patient was admitted for aspiration of the left ankle to rule out infection. The needle was inserted into the ankle joint but no fluid was found for aspiration. What is the procedure code assig...
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A patient presented for diagnostic lumbar puncture due to subarachnoid hemorrhage. The needle was advanced into the lumbar subarachnoid space. Despite attempts, no cerebrospinal fluid could be obta...
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A 64-year-old female, who was diagnosed with ampullary adenoma, presents for open standard Whipple procedure. Due to the malignant behavior of this tumor, a diagnostic laparoscopy was performed fir...
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A 77-year-old female presents due to carcinoma of the head of pancreas. The patient had a previous history of cholecystectomy twenty years ago. During surgery, the provider noted that the tumor was...
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A 65-year-old female, who had previously undergone laparoscopic cholecystectomy and diagnosed with ampullary adenocarcinoma, presented for a Whipple procedure. During surgery, a midline abdominal i...
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A patient with neuroendocrine carcinoma of the pancreas was admitted for surgery. After removal of the central pancreas, the decision was made to perform a pancreaticogastrostomy. The neck of the p...
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