The patient has a known diagnosis of prostatic cancer. He started having fevers approximately one week earlier. The fevers did not respond to outpatient antibiotics. Blood and urine cultures showed no growth. He was admitted for workup of the fevers with possible prostatic abscess formation. There were no obvious signs of infection or abscess on a transrectal ultrasound of the prostate. An iodine-123 radioisotope bone scan of the body revealed no skeletal metastases. The antibiotic therapy was changed, and he was given an IV push. He improved and was discharged.
What is the procedure code?
Diagnosis code for the prostate cancer C61.
It is a medical diagnosis code for the prostrate cancer-C 61.
R 50.9 code for fever.
The patient has a known diagnosis of prostatic cancer. He started having fevers approximately one week...
1.Inpatient admission: The patient has a known diagnosis of prostatic cancer. He started having fevers approximately one week earlier. The fevers did not respond to outpatient antibiotics. Blood and urine cultures showed no growth. He was admitted for workup of the fevers with possible prostatic abscess formation. There were no obvious signs of infection or abscess on a transrectal ultrasound of the prostate. An iodine-123 radioisotope bone scan of the body revealed no skeletal metastases. The antibiotic therapy was changed,...
1. Inpatient admission: The patient was admitted with possible pyelonephritis; Her complaints were bilateral flank pain and chills. A contrast intravenous pyelogram was normal. Within two days of admission, the character of her pain changed somewhat in that it became primarily in the right upper quadrant. The physician documented in the progress notes that significant features of conversion hysteria were present and accounted for the patient's symptoms. On the third hospital day, the patient's IV was discontinued, lover function tests...