Hospital systems within the United States commonly use the current procedural terminology (CPT) coding system developed by the American Medical Association (AMA) to identify specific procedures performed during surgery1,2. Nationally implemented in the 1980s, CPT codes are standardized by the AMA to ...
A patient who is being followed by her Ophthalmologist during the post-op of cataract surgery comes in for an additional visit because she has developed conjunctivitis. The conjunctivitis is unrelated to the cataract surgery and necessitated an additional visit over and above her regular post-op che...
Table 1. Patient characteristics of 14 adipose patients undergoing bariatric surgery (pre-op) and after follow-up (post-op). 2.3. Immunohistochemistry For immunohistochemistry, formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded (FFPE) sections were used. After deparaffinization, tissue sections were pretreated with ...