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A 69-year-old man with recurrent incisional hernia is admitted to undergo an incisional herniorrhaphy with mesh. An incision was made in the midline and carried through the skin and subcutaneous ti...
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A 65-year-old man was admitted and underwent emergent surgery secondary to incarcerated ventral hernia due to adhesions. The surgeon carried out laparoscopic ventral hernia repair with mesh. Accord...
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The patient had uterine adenocarcinoma and was admitted for surgery. The surgeon noted in the dictated report that numerous adhesions between the abdominal wall and uterus were carefully and thorou...
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A patient underwent exploratory laparotomy with lysis of adhesions and colostomy with removal of polyp of the ascending colon and repair of umbilical hernia. The lysis of adhesions was undertaken c...
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How would a diagnosis of “postoperative seroma” be coded in ICD-10-CM?
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How should dehydration with hypernatremia and dehydration with hyponatremia be coded?
Codes E87.0 and E87.1 seem to capture hypernatremia and hyponatremia respectively but not dehydration. Th...
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What is the appropriate body part character when a diagnostic lumbar tap is performed to test for meningitis? When you go to the drainage table (Table 009), there are a couple of options that seem ...
The body par...
How should an aspiration via a lumbar drain port be reported? What body part character should we use for the lumbar drain port?
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The patient had an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA), and underwent endovascular repair. A stent graft was introduced via a transfemoral catheter approach and deployed at the target vessel. How shoul...
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The patient has a history of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) that was previously repaired using an endovascular graft system. He had developed a type 1 endoleak and was admitted to the hospital for...
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