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Coil Embolization

Date: Aug 4, 2017

Question:

Procedures: 1) Coil embolization of left forearm AV cephalic vein. 2) Balloon-assisted maturation of left forearm Cimino AV fistula with cephalic vein. 3) Completion of left forearm AV fistula. What are the codes? Please help; I'm new to vascular coding. 

Question ID : 9696
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