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Anastomosis only

Date: Sep 11, 2019

Question:

"Patient undergoes rotationplasty, and vascular surgeon performs anastomosis of SFA to popliteal artery and femoral vein to popliteal vein." How would you report this case? Should we use repair code of blood vessel?

Question ID : 12982
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