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The main article for this category is Urologic disease. Articles relating to urologic diseases, including urinary tract infections, kidney stones, bladder control problems, and prostate problems, among others. Some urologic conditions do not affect a person for that long and some are lifetime conditions.
The term "uropathy" refers to a disease of the urinary tract, while "nephropathy" refers to a disease of the kidney. For example: Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are infections that affect part of the urinary tract. [ 8] When it affects the lower urinary tract it is known as a bladder infection (cystitis) and when it affects the upper urinary ...
ICD-10 is the 10th revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), a medical classification list by the World Health Organization (WHO). It contains codes for diseases, signs and symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social circumstances, and external causes of injury or diseases. [ 1] Work on ICD-10 began in 1983, [ 2 ...
Large studies of patients have also failed to show any correlation between lower urinary tract symptoms and a specific diagnosis. [10] Also, recently a report of lower urinary tract symptoms even with malignant features in the prostate failed to be associated with prostate cancer after further laboratory investigation of the biopsy. [9]
Major Diagnostic Category. The Major Diagnostic Categories (MDC) are formed by dividing all possible principal diagnoses (from ICD-9-CM) into 25 mutually exclusive diagnosis areas. MDC codes, like diagnosis-related group (DRG) codes, are primarily a claims and administrative data element unique to the United States medical care reimbursement ...
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.
List of ICD-9 codes 140–239: neoplasms. List of ICD-9 codes 240–279: endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases, and immunity disorders. List of ICD-9 codes 280–289: diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs. List of ICD-9 codes 290–319: mental disorders. List of ICD-9 codes 320–389: diseases of the nervous system and sense ...
Retrograde urethrography. Urethrogram showing an urethra stricture in a man. ICD-9. 87.76. OPS-301 code. 3-13g. [ edit on Wikidata] A retrograde urethrography[ 1] is a routine radiologic procedure (most typically in males) used to image the integrity of the urethra . Hence a retrograde urethrogram is essential for diagnosis of urethral injury ...