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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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A patient was admitted for treatment of acute blood loss anemia (ABLA) due to gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding, likely caused by chronic nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) use. Two units of ...
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A patient with acute blood loss anemia was admitted to rule-out gastrointestinal (GI) bleed. Two units of packed red blood cells were transfused. An upper endoscopy revealed oozing from a duodenal ...
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A patient presented due to spontaneous incomplete abortion. This patient also had a history of asthma, which was evaluated and treated during the admission. An ultrasound revealed a 10- to 12-week ...
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A patient presents due to chronic kidney disease with acute kidney injury and bladder mass. The nephrologist documented “CKD G4A3” with an estimated glomerular filtration rate of 25 (eGRF25). I...
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A patient with small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL)/chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) in relapse presents to his primary care physician for follow-up. The provider documented, “No lymph node involve...
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