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Adjacent Tissue Transfer Stands Alone

Published on Thu Nov 18, 2021

Question: Our surgeon performed an excision of a 0.5 x 0.6 cm basal cell carcinoma on the patient’s nose with 0.1 cm margins extending into the subcutaneous fat, creating a 0.8 x 0.7 cm defect. The surgeon closed the defect with a bilobed flap. How should we code this? Georgia Subscriber Answer: A bilobed flap is an adjacent tissue transfer. [...]
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