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Follow These Tips to Flawless Percutaneous Nephrostolithotomy Coding

Published on Thu Oct 17, 2019

Be careful when other services are included in the procedure time. When kidney or ureteral stones need treatment to resolve, they often can be dealt with by extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) or ureteroscopy. When the stones are too large (usually larger than 2 cm), too numerous, or too dense for those treatments, the urologist might opt for percutaneous nephrostolithotomy [...]
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