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I have a patient that had a right hemicolectomy and gastrectomy and the pathology came back as:

Portion of the stomach (gastric mass); Low-grade smooth muscle neoplasm consistent with gastrointestinal tumor.

Right hemicolectomy: invasive and infiltrating modereately-differentiated colonic adenocarcinoma.

Would these be two primary neoplasms???
 
If the only path you have is gastrointestinal tumor I would say code it as a neoplasm unspecified and the colonic adenocarcinoma as a primary neoplasm. But yes it is possible to have more than one primary neoplasm.
 
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