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Date: Sep 29, 2021
Question:
If a patient is brought to IR for pre-op mapping for a liver tumor embolization and they embolize the gastric artery for treatment protection of the stomach, would this be code 37242? The patient has the Y90 embolization of the hepatic arteries five days later.
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