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Remove of Skin Lesion

Date: Mar 7, 2014

Question:

Patient scheduled for a pocket revision, but the day of the procedure only two superficial skin lesions near the pacemaker incision were removed and placed in Formalin. What should the hospital code?

Question ID : 5468
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