Description
- At-a-glance Guide to the 2024 ICD-10-CM Updates in the front of the book lists all new, revised, and deleted codes, providing quick lookup of the coding changes.- Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting (OGCRs) are listed in full in the Introduction, at the beginning of each chapter, and integrated within the code set, providing easier reference to coding rules when they are needed most.- Unique! Full-color anatomy plates (including Netter's Anatomy art) are included in a separate section for easy reference and cross-referenced within the Tabular List of Diseases and Injuries, to help users understand anatomy and how it may affect choosing codes.- Full-color design includes consistent color-coded symbols and text, providing easier access to codes and coding information.- American Hospital Association's Coding Clinic® citations include official ICD-10-CM coding advice relating to specific codes and their usage.- More than 190 illustrations provide visual orientation and enhance understanding of specific coding situations.- Items are included throughout the Tabular List to ensure accurate coding, providing additional information on common diseases and conditions.- Additional elements within specific codes define terms and add coding instructions relating to difficult terminology, diseases and conditions, or coding in a specific category.- Symbols and highlights draw attention to codes that may require special consideration before coding, including:- New, revised, and deleted- Unacceptable Principle Diagnosis- Codes that call for the use of additional character(s)- Includes, Excludes 1 and Excludes 2- Use Additional- Code First and Code Also- Placeholder X symbol reminds you to assign placeholder X for codes less than 6 characters that require a 7th character.- Manifestation code symbol identifies conditions for which it is important to record both the etiology and the symptom of the disease.- HCC symbol indicates diagnoses in the Tabular List associated with Hierarchical Condition Categories.- Age and Sex edits from the Definition of Medicare Code Edits help to ensure accuracy by denoting codes that are used only with patients of a specific age or sex.- NEW! Updated 2024 Official Code set reflects the latest ICD-10 codes needed for diagnosis coding.
Table of Contents
Part 1: Fundamentals1 Essentials of Anterior Abdominal Wall Anatomy for Abdominoplasty2 Surface Abdominal Anatomy, Aesthetics, and Proportionality3 History and Evolution in Abdominoplasties: Evolving to the TULUA Concept4 Developments for a Safer Lipoabdominoplasty5 From ELMA to TULUA6 Abdominal Wall Laxity Correction With Plicatures7 The Origins and Experience of the Transverse Plication During Abdominoplasty in Colombia, Its Uses, Evolution, and Scope8 Neoumbilicoplasty9 Complications and Prevention Pearls in Lipoabdominoplasty10 TULUA Abdominoplasty, Animal Experiments11 TULUA Paradigm Shifting: Detailed Description of the Concepts That Originated the TechniquePart 2: Surgical Techniques and TULUA Indications12 TULUA: A Surgical Guide to the Basic Technique13 TULUA Corrects and Prevents Primary or Secondary Upper Abdomen Redundancy14 TULUA Hernio-Abdominoplasty: Hernia Management During Abdominoplasty15 TULUA Abdominoplasty in Postbariatric Patients16 Secondary TULUA Lipoabdominoplasty17 How to Prevent and Solve Complications of Previous Abdominoplasties and Liposuction With TULUA18 Avoiding Tissue Necrosis After Abdominoplasty in the Patient With Subcostal Scars Using TULUA Lipoabdominoplasty19 TULUA Lipoabdominoplasty Resects More Tissue Than Conventional Methods While Still Maintaining a Low Scar Placement20 TULUA with Additional Vertical Plicature: The Combination of Vertical and Transverse Plications Adds Advantages21 TULUA-HD: High-definition Liposuction Combined With Transverse Plicature Abdominoplasty22 TULUA With Abdominal Volumization Using Intramuscular Fat Grafting23 Caldeira-Midi-TULUA Abdominoplasty: Incomplete Subumbilical Resection, and Neoumbilicoplasty During Lipoabdominoplasty24 LIPO-MIT "Mini-TULUA": Liposuction With Anatomical Definition, Infraumbilical Resection, Short Incision, and Transverse Plicature25 TULUA-DIEP: Optimizing Abdominal Donor Site During Free Flap Breast Reconstruction Using Transverse Plication Abdominoplasty26 TULUA-Hemi DIEP: Donor Abdominoplasty Following Flap Banking For Microsurgical Breast Reconstruction27 Pregnancy After TULUA28 Female External Genitalia in the Context of Transverse Plication TULUA Abdominoplasty29 TULUA in a Kidney Transplant Patient: Case Report and Literature Review About Aesthetic Surgery in Transplanted PatientsPart 3: International Adaptations of TULUA30 FLORIDA Abdominoplasty31 LIMA Abdominoplasty: Liposculpture, Mixed Musculoaponeurotic Plication, and Abdominoplasty With Neoumbilicoplasty32 Lipoabdominoplasty and Abdominal Wall Correction With the Crossbow Plication.
