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Wiki Ellman Unit

Thread starter WonderCoder
Start date Feb 25, 2011

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WonderCoder

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Feb 25, 2011

If the physician uses an Ellman Unit to remove a .6cm lesion from pt's R leg and no sutures were needed but rather silver nitrate cautery was done to control the bleeding. How would this be coded? Would this be considered a destruction?

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