Jun 18, 2015 · Question: Our surgeon treated a patient with erythema of the conchal bowl and marked desquamated and ceruminous debris in each ear canal. The surgeon debrided the ears with operating microscope suction.

Oct 13, 2008 · Our physician started the procedure (cpt 21235) and had to bank the cartilage graft to the mastoid instead of the nose because pt had excessive bleeding and blood pressure lability. Pt is going to come back for the definitive procedure in 2 weeks. How do I code this?

Jan 26, 2018 · A full thickness skin and cartilage composite graft was excised from the conchal bowl donor site. The graft was trimmed to fit the recipient site, the underlying cartilage was fenestrated to allow imbibition on the graft, and sutured onto the recipient site with 5-0 fast absorbing gut basting sutures and 6-0 prolene running sutures at the ...

May 18, 2017 · Looking for some advice on the following procedure: Procedure note: Left ear conchal bowl debridement and reconstruction with right post auricular full thickness skin graft Defect size / skin graft size : 1.7 x 1.8 cm left concha cavum Informed consent was obtained. The left ear and right...

Feb 7, 2013 · A conchal bowl former was placed as well to compress the bowl The cover of the device was placed securely. We inspected the skin within the device which is transparent.

Jan 21, 2015 · The perichondrium was dissected off the entire conchal bowl because of the hematoma. We billed 13152 and 69005, but Cigna denied the 13152 because of coding edits.

Mar 9, 2017 · Op notes states: A 15 blade was utilized to make a perpendicular incision around the skin cancer in a circular shape. A full thickness excision was preformed. I then extended the excison anteriorly, rescting a bit of the cartilage of the ear in the conchal bowl. The deep plane reached was the...

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Feb 17, 2010 · Hi Fellows, I am coding a procedure that involves two types of grafting. One procedure was ear cartilage grafting to the nose and ear composite graft to the nose. Per op-report, the cartilage graft was harvested from the conchal bowl of the right ear and repaired closed. Composite graft was...

Sep 26, 2011 · Hemostasis was ensured. Because this graft was being placed externally, the skin was then taken from the postauricular area, along with the cartilage. The incision was made postauricular skin. The skin was harvested from the junction of the conchal bowl and the scalp. The cartilage was taken from the conchal bowl with the skin.