19368

CPT^® 19368, Under Repair and/or Reconstruction Procedures on the Breast

The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT^®) code 19368 as maintained by American Medical Association, is a medical procedural code under the range - Repair and/or Reconstruction Procedures on the Breast.

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The provider artificially creates the contour of a breast by harvesting a flap of skin, fat, and transverse rectus abdominis muscle from the lower abdomen, leaving a small strip of vascularized tissue connected to the original site, sutures the flap to the location of the original breast, and connects the small vessels in the flap to the mastectomy site using microvascular technique to restore cosmetic appearance following breast removal surgery or to repair a defect.

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