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Anatomic Pathology:

Avoid This $312 Sentinel Lymph Node Mistake

Published on Mon Oct 10, 2016

Ensure that you’re up-to-date on IHC rules. Your pathologist receives two sentinel lymph nodes for “lymphatic mapping” to help the oncologist with staging the patient’s malignant melanoma. Read the following case to make sure you know how to capture all the pay your pathologist deserves for the sentinel lymph node evaluation. Decode the Pathology Procedures The pathologist receives two separate [...]
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