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If a patient is admitted with abdominal pain and respiratory symptoms after careful study the patient the patient is diagnosed with pneumonia and acute appendicitis and has an appendectomy. Is there a rule that states you must use the principal diagnosis that is associated with the surgery? Or can you code pneumonia as the prinicpal diagnosis and use the other codes to code the surgery?