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Other excision or destruction of lesion or tissue of brain Curettage of brain; Debridement of brain; Marsupialization of brain cyst; Transtemporal (mastoid) excision of brain tumor Excision of lesion of skull Removal of granulation tissue of cranium Other operations on skull, brain, and cerebral meninges Cranioplasty
A soft-tissue sarcoma (STS) is a malignant tumor, a type of cancer, that develops in soft tissue. [1] A soft-tissue sarcoma is often a painless mass that grows slowly over months or years. They may be superficial or deep-seated. Any such unexplained mass must be diagnosed by biopsy. [2]
Myxofibrosarcoma (MFS), although a rare type of tumor, is one of the most common soft tissue sarcomas, i.e. cancerous tumors, that develop in the soft tissues of elderly individuals. [1] Initially considered to be a type of histiocytoma termed fibrous histiocytoma or myxoid variant of malignant fibrous histiocytoma, [ 2 ] Angervall et al ...
The ICD-10 Procedure Coding System (ICD-10-PCS) is a US system of medical classification used for procedural coding.The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the agency responsible for maintaining the inpatient procedure code set in the U.S., contracted with 3M Health Information Systems in 1995 to design and then develop a procedure classification system to replace Volume 3 of ICD-9-CM.
Lymphangiosarcoma is a rare cancer which occurs in long-standing cases of primary or secondary lymphedema (swelling due to lymphatic system obstruction). It involves either the upper or lower lymphedematous extremities but is most common in upper extremities. [1]
In a margin positive resection some lesional tissue is left behind in the patient. Micrograph of a stained slide of a resected myopericytoma, the resection margin stained brown. A resection margin or surgical margin is the margin of apparently non-tumorous tissue around a tumor that has been surgically removed, called "resected", in surgical ...
The International Classification of Diseases for Oncology (ICD-O) is a domain-specific extension of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems for tumor diseases.
This is as it would appear on the patient. Malignant melanoma of the skin. This is a section of tissue, stained with hematoxylin & eosin, and viewed on a microscope slide. Surgical pathology is the most significant and time-consuming area of practice for most anatomical pathologists.