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I have a surgical pathology report and the pathologist states the diagnosis is: no pathologic diagnosis ( gross only). How do I code this? What diagnosis code would?
You would code on whatever signs or symptoms indicated the need to sent the specimen. Do you have access to the clinical information for this specimen?