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Select Correct Foot Foreign Body Removal Code

Published on Tue Aug 29, 2017

Question: Recently, a patient came in complaining about mild pain after stepping on a pile of branches and sustaining a puncture wound. The patient was unable to locate a foreign object. The podiatrist examined the patient's right foot, plantar aspect and suspected a deep foreign body of the middle and medial aspect of the foot. The patient did not have an [...]
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