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Pancreas Surgery:

4 Steps Focus Whipple Code Selection

Published on Mon Apr 15, 2019

Identify approach, excisions, and resections. Surgical treatment for pancreatic cancer might challenge you with coding the complicated Whipple procedure. Problem is, you might not even see that name in the op note, instead confronting a list of seemingly disparate procedures like duodenectomy, gastrojejunostomy, and choledochoenterostomy. Here’s why: The pancreas is closely associated with other organs, so removing part of the pancreas [...]
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