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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. List of ICD-9 codes 680–709: diseases of the skin and ...

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    This is a shortened version of the twelfth chapter of the ICD-9: Diseases of the Skin and Subcutaneous Tissue. It covers ICD codes 680 to 709. The full chapter can be found on pages 379 to 393 of Volume 1, which contains all (sub)categories of the ICD-9. Volume 2 is an alphabetical index of Volume 1.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans - Wikipedia

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    Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans (DFSP) [2] is a rare locally aggressive malignant cutaneous soft-tissue sarcoma. DFSP develops in the connective tissue cells in the middle layer of the skin (dermis). [3] Estimates of the overall occurrence of DFSP in the United States are 0.8 to 4.5 cases per million persons per year.

  9. Coblation tonsillectomy - Wikipedia

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    The word coblation is short for ‘controlled ablation’, which means a controlled procedure used to destroy soft tissue. [ 3 ] This procedure uses low temperature radio frequency during the operation, which was found to cause less pain for the patient than previous technologies used for tonsillectomy .