Terms or Acronyms | Definitions or Answers |
Endoscopy rule #1 | always code to the farthest site |
Endoscopy rule #2 | Code the proper approach |
Anoscopy | endoscopic exam of anus |
Proctosigmoidoscopy | endoscopic exam of rectum and sigmoid colon |
Sigmoidoscopy | endoscopic exam of entire rectum, sigmoid colon, and may include portion of descending colon |
Colonoscopy | endoscopic exam of entire colon from rectum to cecum and may include part of the terminal ileum |
3 parts of the small intestine in descending order | duodenum, jejunum and ileum |
Anastamosis | joining of two hollow tube like structures |
exteriorizing (ostomy) | developing an artificial opening |
3 types of anastamosis | end to end, end to side and side to side |
5 ostomies for the intestines | sigmoid, descending, transverse, ascending and ileostomy |
Stoma | artificial opening which allows removal of body wastes |
Strangulated hernia | hernia with blood supply cut off |
Incarcerated hernia | not reducible and constricted but not strangulated(cut off) |
Reducible hernia | able to be returned back into the abdominal cavity |
Nonreducible hernia | hernia not able to be returned back into the abdominal cavity |
volvulus | twisted section of the intestine |
Eviseration | pulling the viscera outside of the body through an incision |
Hernia | organ or tissue protruding through the wall or cavity that usually contains it |
Intussusception | slipping of one part of the intestine into another part |
medastinum | area between the lungs |
diaphragm | wall of muscle that seperates thoracic and abdominal cavities |
imbrication of the diaphragm | diaphragm sutured back into place |
eventration | diaphragm moves up due to paralysis of nerves |
Endoscopy rule #3 | If a diagnostic procedure turns into a surgical procedure, code ONLY the surgical procedure |