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The following is an example of how my vascular/IR doctors dictate. Would you code this as diagnostic imaging, or is it considered roadmapping? Should I have the doctors remove "roadmapping" when dictating? "Initial roadmap images were obtained of the abdominal aorta. Angiographic imaging demonstrated a widely patent left renal artery. The images occurred below the other visceral vessels. There was fairly focal region of complex stenosis involving the mid abdominal aorta over a distance of several centimeters. There was a large lumbar collateral arising from the posterior aspect of this region. The inferior mesenteric artery was patent but diminutive in caliber. There were recurrent stenoses in the proximal aspect of the common iliac stents bilaterally. Using this magnified roadmap image, I decided to place an LD stent."