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Wiki Seroma Capsule Excision

Thread starter nsteinhauser
Start date Sep 25, 2012

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nsteinhauser

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Sep 25, 2012

Surgeon drains a post-operative subq seroma and then excises the seroma capsule, closing with a drain placed in layered closure.

Question - don't want to use I+D - he did more than that. Can't use 10180 - there was no infection, just a seroma. Benign lesion excision with layered closure?

Anyone?

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