Answer:-
C. one-half of the vertebral body
Discription
Spine and Spinal Cord A definition for partial vertebral corpectomy has been added For vertebral, the term partial is used to describe removal of a substantial portion of the body of the vertebra. In the cervical spine, the amount of bone removed is defined as at least one-half of the vertebral body.
8:42 PM Question 11: When coding vertebral corpectomy, the term "partial" is defined in subcategories of...
8:42 PM Question 11: When coding vertebral corpectomy, the term "partial" is defined in subcategories of the "Spine Spinal Cord" category as the "removal of a substantial portion of the body of the vertebra." w of the following amounts of bone removed from the cervical spine meets the definition of "par O A. One-quarter of the vertebral body O B. One-third of the vertebral body ° C. One-half of the vertebral body O D. Three-quarters of the vertebral body Previous