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  2. ICD-10 Procedure Coding System - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Salpingectomy - Wikipedia

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    Salpingectomy was performed by Lawson Tait in 1883 in women with a bleeding ectopic pregnancy; it is now established as a routine and lifesaving procedure [clarification needed]. Other indications for a salpingectomy include infected tubes (as in a hydrosalpinx) or as part of the surgical procedure for tubal cancer. [citation needed]

  4. OPCS-4 - Wikipedia

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    Minor changes and coding advice for both ICD-10 and OPCS-4 are disseminated through the ICD-10 and OPCS-4 Classifications Content Changes. Until March 2022 this publication was known as The Coding Clinic, which was initially issued as a printed newsletter. Then, in 2012, the format was switched to a single, compendium-like electronic publication.

  5. List of -ectomies - Wikipedia

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    Salpingectomy is the removal of the fallopian tubes. Salpingo-oophorectomy is the removal of the ovary and the fallopian tube together, when both left and right tubes and ovaries are removed, this is referred to as a bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy. Scaphoidectomy [2] Septectomy is the removal of a septum. Splenectomy is the surgical removal of ...

  6. Exploratory laparotomy - Wikipedia

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    If being performed for cancer staging, special attention will be paid during the exploratory laparotomy to the lymph nodes, which may be biopsied, or removed and assessed with a microscope or other special tests to see whether they contain cancerous cells indicative of cancer spread. [7] [9]

  7. Invasive carcinoma of no special type - Wikipedia

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    The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) guidelines recommend bilateral prophylactic mastectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy for women who are carriers of germline BRCA1/2 mutation. At the age of 35 to 40 years, or once childbearing is completed, the procedure is recommended for risk reduction purposes.

  8. Liver biopsy - Wikipedia

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    Occasionally, liver biopsy is required to monitor the progress of treatment, such as in chronic viral hepatitis. [1] It is an effective way to measure changes in the Ishak fibrosis score. [3] For the last century liver biopsy has been considered as the gold standard for assessing the stage and the grade of chronic liver disease.

  9. Salpingo-oophorectomy - Wikipedia

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    In medicine, salpingo-oophorectomy is the removal of an ovary and its fallopian tube. [1] [2] This procedure is most frequently associated with prophylactic surgery in response to the discovery of a BRCA mutation, particularly those of the normally tumor suppressing BRCA1 gene (or, with a statistically lower negative impact, those of the tumour suppressing BRCA2 gene), which can increase the ...