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Ruptured carotid artery stent placement

Date: Sep 5, 2019

Question:

A patient had a ruptured internal carotid artery secondary to radiation and malignancy of the right neck. A carotid stent is placed to repair the rupture via femoral exposure. The physician stated it was more in the cervical carotid area than intracranial, so my question is would this be stent placement 37236 or carotid stent 37216 (no flow device was used) since it was treating hemorrhage?

Question ID : 12900
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