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Embolization post trauma

Date: Sep 5, 2019

Question:

Multiple blunt injuries with hepatic and splenic lacerations. Patient presents for embolization of the splenic artery and the right and left hepatic arteries. Would you consider this to be two separate organs and code 37244 x 2, or one surgical field and code 37244 one time only?

Question ID : 13000
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