Urology Coding Alert
Let This Tool Guide You When You Encounter Acronyms
Published on Tue Feb 13, 2007
If your surgeon's notes puzzle you, check this chart to decipher them We polled our experts and established a list of the most frequently documented abbreviations and acronyms that urology coders encounter. You can decipher your surgeon's notes a little easier if you use this listing of abbreviations and their meanings.
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