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Focus Intraoperative Consult Coding

Published on Fri Nov 10, 2023

Question: The surgeon requests an intraoperative consultation for a lumpectomy specimen, first for a preliminary diagnosis, but also to evaluate the marked medial and lateral margins to see if they’re clear. The pathologist performs a rapid microscopic examination of the lumpectomy specimen as a whole using frozen section technique (one block) and assigns an immediate diagnosis of “infiltrating ductal carcinoma.” The [...]
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