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Excision vascular mass from forearm
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I'm unsure how to code this. I need your expert opinion. "Preop and Postop: Vascular mass right forearm. Procedure: Excision mass right forearm. Patient brought operating room and placed supine. Right arm prepped and draped usual fashion. Incision lines made to resect mass and large area block 1% lidocaine installed. Incision created sharply with scalpel and carried down through skin and subcutaneous tissue. Sharp dissection used free up mass circumferentially. It was removed en bloc with skin attached.It appears to be venous aneurysm off basilic vein. The inflow and outflow vein were ligated and mass removed in its entirety. Hemostasis achieved in field and wound closed 3-0 Vicryl followed by 3-0 nylon."
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