Need help with an ICD-9 code for small cell neuroendocrine tumor of pancreas please.
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Wiki need help coding small cell neuroendocrine tumor of pancreas
- Thread starter rlazcano@ucsd.edu
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It is my understanding that endocrine pancreatic cells are considered islet cells. I was thinking ICD9 code 157.4.
mitchellde
True Blue
if it is not documented as benign or malignant then a tumor is coded as a neoplasm unspecified. in this case 239.7 if that is all that is documented.