AAPC - Chapter 7 Practical Applications

CASE 1 PREOPERATIVE DIAGNOSIS: Rapidly enlarging suspicious lesion on patient's right side of forehead. (Indications for surgery.) POSTOPERATIVE DIAGNOSIS: Rapidly enlarging suspicious lesion on patient's right side of forehead. OPERATION PERFORMED: Wide local excision with intermediate closure of the right side of forehead. (An excision with intermediate closure was performed.) INDICATIONS: The patient is a 78-year-old white male who noticed within the last month or so, a rapidly enlarging suspicious lesion on the right side of his forehead. DESCRIPTION OF PROCEDURE: The patient was placed in the supine position on the table, and was given no sedation. The area of his right forehead (Location is the right forehead.) was draped and prepped with Betadine paint in normal sterile fashion. The area to be excised was on the right side of the patient's mid forehead. This lesion had a maximum diameter of 1.1 cm (Great - L85.8 12052 11442-51