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Abdominal wall mass
A patient had an exploratory laparotomy and endometriosis was found that was fused to her abdominal wall. The doctor did an "excision of abdominal wall mass". How do I code this?
how about
49203-5? That is an endometrioma
Laparoscopy for excision of endometriosis
Was the excision of the endometriosis performed through with laparoscope or was it converted to an open procedure?
49203-49205 is for an open procedure.
If done laparoscopically, and this was of the abdominal wall and not of some other organ within the abdominal cavity, then look at:
58660 Laparoscopy, surgical; with lysis of adhesions (salpingolysis, ovariolysis) (separate procedure)
or
49329 Unlisted laparoscopy procedure, abdomen, peritoneum and omentum