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Understand Conjunctival FB Coding Nuances

Published on Fri Sep 23, 2022

Question: Our ophthalmologist saw a patient in the morning who complained of a foreign body (FB) in her right eye after chopping wood. The physician removed the wood chip from the patient’s conjunctiva. Later that day, the patient was chopping wood again and got another FB in her right eye — this time affecting the sclera but not perforating it. Which [...]
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