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A patient, one day post-cheek reconstruction for melanoma, presented to the emergency room with significant swelling. A hematoma was identified and multiple attempts were made to decompress it unde...
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A patient with a history of abdominal surgeries presented with a subcutaneous pocket with a sinus tract and hypertrophic granulation tissue at the 3 o’clock position, as well as a small suture gr...
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A patient presents for a left knee medial patellofemoral ligament (MPFL) reconstruction with allograft, open autograft osteochondritis dissecans (OCD) fixation, and matrix-induced autologous chondr...
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A five-year-old female with profound developmental delays and epilepsy has chronic static encephalopathy secondary to epilepsy and epileptic encephalopathy. In the Alphabetic Index, under the main ...
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What is the appropriate code assignment for a major neurocognitive disorder without behavioral disturbance when the underlying etiology is unknown, or not further specified? Depending on how the Al...
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The Glasgow coma scale (GCS) is used to help evaluate the acuity of traumatic brain injuries. Therefore, would it be appropriate to report the most severe GCS score if the patient’s score worsens...
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A patient with traumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage and traumatic subdural hemorrhage due to a fall was initially noted to have loss of consciousness (LOC), for approximately 30 minutes at the time of...
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A 50-year-old patient with a history of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease presented after experiencing blurry vision for the past two weeks. The patient was admitted and after work-up, the...
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A patient with a history of T-cell lymphoma of the skin presented due to fever, hypotension and worsening skin lesions. A positron emission tomography (PET) scan was performed which showed multiple...
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A patient with a known history of a carotid body tumor is admitted for surgical treatment of a left infrarenal para-aortic mass consistent with a paraganglioma. During the procedure, an incision wa...
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