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Decipher Nephrostomy Exchange Verbiage in Op Report

Published on Wed Mar 10, 2021

Question: I’m working on an operative report that involves a laser ablation of ureteral calculus. However, I can’t seem to figure out what code to report for this portion of the surgery: Next, we replaced the previous nephrostomy catheter with an 18-French Councill tip Foley catheter with 5mL acting as a percutaneous nephrostomy tube into the collecting system, which was [...]
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