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  2. ICD-9-CM Volume 3 - Wikipedia

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    18.4 Physical therapy ... ICD-9-CM Volume 3 is a system of procedural codes used by health insurers to ... Other excision of soft tissue of hand ...

  3. List of ICD-9 codes 710–739: diseases of the musculoskeletal ...

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    This is a shortened version of the thirteenth chapter of the ICD-9: Diseases of the Musculoskeletal System and Connective Tissue. It covers ICD codes 710 to 739. The full chapter can be found on pages 395 to 415 of Volume 1, which contains all (sub)categories of the ICD-9. Volume 2 is an alphabetical index of Volume 1.

  4. 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.

  5. Current Procedural Terminology - Wikipedia

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    The CPT code revisions in 2013 were part of a periodic five-year review of codes. Some psychotherapy codes changed numbers, for example 90806 changed to 90834 for individual psychotherapy of a similar duration. Add-on codes were created for the complexity of communication about procedures.

  6. Debridement - Wikipedia

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    Debridement is the medical removal of dead, damaged, or infected tissue to improve the healing potential of the remaining healthy tissue. [2] [3] Removal may be surgical, mechanical, chemical, autolytic (self-digestion), or by maggot therapy.

  7. Heterotopic ossification - Wikipedia

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    Radiation Therapy. Elbow heterotopic ossification radiation therapy field, status post surgery. Prophylactic radiation therapy for the prevention of heterotopic ossification has been employed since the 1970s. A variety of doses and techniques have been used. Generally, radiation therapy should be delivered as close as practical to the time of ...

  8. Template:Muscle and soft tissue procedures - Wikipedia

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    To change this template's initial visibility, the |state= parameter may be used: {{Muscle and soft tissue procedures | state = collapsed}} will show the template collapsed, i.e. hidden apart from its title bar. {{Muscle and soft tissue procedures | state = expanded}} will show the template expanded, i.e. fully visible.

  9. Laminectomy - Wikipedia

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    The reason for lamina removal is rarely, if ever, because the lamina itself is diseased; rather, it is done to break the continuity of the rigid ring of the spinal canal to allow the soft tissues within the canal to: 1) expand (decompress); 2) change the contour of the vertebral column; or 3) permit access to deeper tissue inside the spinal canal.