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Date: Mar 5, 2010
Question:
When a vascular surgeon performs an angioplasty of a femoral vein graph and documents he made a 1 cm incision above the graph prior to utilizing seldinger technique, would the incision make this an open procedure? Does any incision make a procedure open even if the vessel is entered by seldinger technique?
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