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How Do We Differentiate Ligation from Excision?
Published on Thu Feb 20, 2020
Question: Our GI physician typically documents hemorrhoid “ligations,” but this week we got a chart with a hemorrhoid “excision,” and we aren’t sure if those are the same. Can you advise? Codify Subscriber Answer: You’re correct to be suspicious about the verbiage being different, because these terms do not describe the same thing. An internal hemorrhoid excision is not the [...]