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NEPHROSTOGRAM WITH STONE BASKET REMOVAL RENAL STONE

Date: Oct 21, 2019

Question:

Our coding department wants to use 50561 for this procedure. I'm questioning this since the procedure was not done through an endoscope. Can you please advise? "Contrast is injected via the existing nephrostomy tube. Via the nephrostomy tube, a 10 mm vertebral basket is advanced into the collecting system of the kidney. Manipulation of the basket was utilized to successfully catheter and removed a 6 mm x 5 mm urinary tract stone. Further injection of contrast via a 9 French sheath shows no further filling defects within the collecting system. Contrast is seen to pass into urinary bladder without obstruction. The sheath is removed and sterile dressing applied along with Steri-Strips."

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