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Question 20140007
Inquiry Details
References:
2014 SEER Manual. App C
Question:
Surgery of Primary Site--Lung: How is surgery coded when a patient undergoes a mediastinoscopy with mediastinal lymph node sampling and then a later upper lobectomy? See discussion.
Discussion:
The mediastinal nodes were submitted as a separate specimen. The patient also had several peribronchial nodes identified within the lobectomy specimen.
Does code 33 (Lobectomy with mediastinal lymph node dissection) require a complete mediastinal lymph node dissection (i.e. the removal of all lymph nodes in mediastinal chain(s) as opposed to a selective sampling/dissection of lymph nodes from multiple mediastinal chains)?
Answer:
Assign code 33 in this situation. Code 33 can include mediastinal lymph node sampling.
Cancer Site Category:
Lung
Data Item Category:
Surgery of Primary Site
Other Category:
N/A
Year:
2014
