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Boost Injection Smarts by Knowing Tarsi Space

Published on Wed Sep 21, 2016

Question: How do you code for sinus tarsi injection? West Virginia Subscriber Answer: Coding for a sinus tarsi injection is little challenging since the sinus tarsi is neither a joint nor a ligament - it is a space. The area is the soft indentation just in front of the lateral malleolus and contains nerve endings, fat, joint capsule, arterial anastomoses, and five [...]
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