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The diagnosis reads "first-, second-, and third-degree burns of the right arm." You would code

Patient is admitted for elective cholecystectomy for treatment of chronic cholecystitis with cholelithiasis. Prior to administration of general anesthesia, pati...

A physician lists the final diagnosis as diarrhea and constipation due to either irritable bowel syndrome or diverticulitis. The following codes are assigned:

When an open biopsy is followed by a more extensive definitive procedure the coder reports

In ICD-9-CM, when an exploratory laparotomy is performed followed by a therapeutic procedure, the coder reports