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Accurately Code Vertebral Fractures

Published on Wed Dec 11, 2013

Question: One of the patients treated by our neurosurgeon had a pathologic fracture of L4 with inversion of left pedicle and foramen and compression of nerve root at L3-L4. The following procedures were done for nerve compression with epidural mass at L3-L4: 1. Left L3 hemilaminotomy with facetectomy and microdiskectomy
2 Removal of left L3-L4 epidural mass
3. [...]
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