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Take Transforaminal Epidural Injection Coding to New Levels With a Better Grasp of the Spine

Published on Tue Feb 05, 2013

Visualize the procedure to take the mystery out of coding. The more you understand about spinal structures, the more confident you can be in your transforaminal epidural injection coding. These graphics can help answer some of your anatomy questions. Figure 1 shows the full spine. C1-C7 are cervical vertebrae, Th1-Th12 (also called T1-T12) are thoracic vertebrae, and L1-L5 are lumbar [...]
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