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Check These Diagnoses for Pathologic Femur Fracture

Published on Tue Sep 09, 2014

Question: Our pathologist examined a femur neck specimen with a fracture from the patient’s right leg, and diagnosed metastatic prostate cancer. The patient has completed the prostate cancer treatment and, until this, had no other evidence of disease. How will we code this scenario in ICD-9 and ICD-10? Answer: You should code the findings for the pathologic fracture with 733.14 (Pathological fracture [...]
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