Question

A ________ _________ is the removal of an entire breast.

When performing __________ __________ in removing malignant tissue, if the immediate biopsy does not show sufficient margins, additional tissue is removed.

When calculating the area of wound size for autograft tissue/cultured autograft, the wounds are separated by __________ ______.

The appropriate code for the excision of lesions of unspecified behavior is chosen based on three parameters: __________, ___________, and _____________.

When coding for an excised lesion and during the operative session, the margins are extended, one code will be reported based on the __________ __________ of the lesion that was removed.

____________ and _____________ procedures are often used to treat skin and soft-tissue infections, including cutaneous abscesses.

Incision and drainage procedures usually have separate codes for _____________ procedures and for _____________ procedures.

Debridement codes are categorized first by surface area and depth. Depth is divided in to ________ levels.

___________ ____________ applies to injuries, infections, wounds, and chronic ulcers.

A __________ is the narrow border required to adequately excise a malignant tumor.

Answer 1

FILL IN THE BLANKS

-Mastectomy is the removal of entire breast.

-total mastectomy

- tissue nippers

-location, maximum excised diameter ( which inlcudes the margin) and lesion type (benign or malignant ) are the three parameters

- by measuring the greatest clinical diameters of apparent lesion plus that (most narrow) margin required for complete excision.

- Incision and drainage

-abscesses, cysts and hematomas ,seromas ,fluid colllection,

- exicisional ,selective, non selective levels

-chronic non healing wound

- margin