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One pseudocyst 2 catheters 49405

Date: Sep 12, 2019

Question:

I have a patient with a pseudocyst of the pancreas, and the attending placed two indwelling drainage catheters. Would that be 1 or 2 units of 40405?

Question ID : 13005
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