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How Should You Report Proctopexy?

Published on Tue Nov 06, 2018

Question: Our gastroenterologist circled 45130 for this note, but it doesn’t seem to fit the report to us. Can you advise? The perineum was prepped and draped in the usual fashion. Patient suffered a rectal prolapse of the mucosa on the right side greater than the left. I placed a Lone Star retractor to evert the anus. I then marched [...]
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