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Focus on Specimens, Stains, for FNA Case

Published on Tue Jul 07, 2015

Question: Please help with coding for the following thyroid case: Pathologist receives from surgery two FNA passes from a right thyroid nodule, evaluates each and reports back to surgeon — specimens adequate for evaluation.  Pathologist evaluates thin-layer slides from each FNA pass, prepares and evaluates slides from the clot, and diagnoses thyroid peroxidase and CD56 immunostains on each specimen. Texas [...]
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