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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 with recurring sigmoid diverticulitis presented for a hand-assisted laparoscopic sigmoid colectomy with colorectal anastomosis. The procedure was initiated by making a transverse incision...
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A patient who is status post chemoradiation for Hodgkin’s disease presents with esophageal and gastric outlet obstruction, due to progression of metastatic leiomyosarcoma to the liver, causing ex...
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A patient presents to the Emergency Department and is admitted after computerized tomography (CT) of the abdomen revealed acute prostatitis and cystitis. How should acute prostatitis with cystitis ...
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A 17-year-old patient with a history of thoracic adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) has developed adding-on phenomenon following a previous T2-T12 posterior spinal fusion. The patient has develo...
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A patient with mantle cell lymphoma presented to the outpatient clinic for administration of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell immunotherapy. After the infusion was completed, the patient was ...
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