Wiki Lumpectomy Breast

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How would you code an Lumpectomy left breast, with sentinel nodes (left), and with margins.
also what about Lumpectomy with margins and no nodes

These are really hard for me considering Pathology have so many do's and don'ts.
 
This can best be answered with the report. Can your strip the report of all identifying information and post?
 
Here is an excerpt from the Specimen Code Rapid Finder List:

88305 Breast biopsy, without margin exam
88305 Breast, excision of discrete lesion (eg. fibroadenoma)
88307 Breast, excision of lesion, with margin exam
88305 Breast, incisional biopsy

88307 Breast, lumpectomy

88307 Breast mastectomy-partial or simple w/o lymph nodes
88309 Breast mastectomy-radical/modified radical
88309 Breast mastectomy-simple with lymph nodes
88305 Breast needle core tissue biopsy
88307 Breast, quadrantectomy
88305 Breast reduction mammoplasty
88307 Breast, segmentectomy
88307 Breast, tylectomy

88305 Lymph node biopsy (needle or incisional)
88307 Lymph node for lymphoma workup (see chapter 5)
88307 Lymph nodes regional resection

88307 Lymph node, sentinel
 
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