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The patient was admitted for revision of right hip arthroplasty. The right ceramic head and acetabular liner were replaced due to excessive wear. Is this procedure coded as a revision or replacemen...
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A patient with cervical stenosis presented for laminoplasty of levels C3-C7. The patient was prepped for surgery and a midline posterior cervical incision was made. A drill was used to create a &nb...
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The patient is an 83-year-old male who presented with cervical myelopathy. He elected to proceed with decompressive cervical laminectomy to release the spinal cord. The surgeon performed an open to...
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A patient presents with left frozen shoulder with subacromial impingement, biceps tendonitis, and rotator cuff tendonitis. He underwent left shoulder manipulation, arthroscopic subacromial decompre...
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The patient is a 40-year-old male, who had been experiencing painful, restricted active and passive range of motion of the left shoulder. He underwent arthroscopic release of the shoulder joint. Th...
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The patient had severe mitral valve disease and underwent open mitral valve repair involving a wedge resection of P2 (mid portion) of the posterior leaflet with a 32 millimeter Colvin-Galloway (CG)...
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A patient with proliferative vitreoretinopathy of the left eye underwent pars plana vitrectomy revision. After the revision, Kenalog was injected intravitreally, followed by subconjunctival injecti...
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A patient status post multiple eye procedures, who is diagnosed with corneal edema with anterior segment membrane of the right eye, presented for penetrating keratoplasty and anterior segment recon...
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A patient with failed corneal graft with corneal scar of the right eye presented for penetrating keratoplasty of the right eye. A paracentesis was performed and the anterior chamber filled with vis...
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A seven-year-old boy with Noonan syndrome and non-cleft velopharyngeal insufficiency underwent posterior pharyngeal flap to the soft palate. At surgery, the posterior pharyngeal flap was suspended ...
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