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Code This Lymph Node Path Report as Secondary

Published on Wed Jan 24, 2024

Question: One of our patients had known invasive ductal carcinoma of the breast and had a mastectomy. The axillary contents were removed at the time of the mastectomy, and the breast tissue and lymph nodes are all on the same pathology report. The report states the provider examined a total of seven nodes, and three of them were tumor cells. Even [...]
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