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Acromioplasty is a arthroscopic surgical procedure of the acromion.

Generally, it implies removal of a small piece of the surface of the bone (acromion) that is in contact with a tendon causing, by friction, damage to the latter tissue.

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Orthopedic surgery, operations/surgeries and other procedures on bones and joints (ICD-9-CM V3 76-81, ICD-10-PCS 0P-S)

Bones

Facial	Jaw reduction · Dentofacial osteotomy · Genioplasty/Mentoplasty (Chin augmentation) · Orthognathic surgery

Spine	Coccygectomy · Laminotomy · Laminectomy · Laminoplasty · Corpectomy · Facetectomy · Foraminotomy · Vertebral fixation · Percutaneous vertebroplasty

Upper extremity	Acromioplasty

Lower extremity	Femoral head ostectomy · Astragalectomy · Distraction osteogenesis · Ilizarov apparatus

General	Ostectomy · Bone grafting · Osteotomy · Epiphysiodesis · Reduction · Internal fixation · External fixation

Medical imaging	Dual energy X-ray absorptiometry/Digital X-ray radiogrammetry · pQCT · Skeletal survey · Bone scintigraphy

Cartilage

Articular cartilage repair (Microfracture surgery) · Knee cartilage replacement therapy · Autologous chondrocyte implantation

Joints

Spine	Arthrodesis (Spinal fusion) Intervertebral discs (Discectomy · Intervertebral disc annuloplasty · Intervertebral disc arthroplasty) Back examination (Straight leg raise, Waddell's signs, Schober's test)

Upper extremity	Shoulder surgery (Shoulder replacement, Bankart repair, Weaver-Dunn procedure) · Ulnar collateral ligament reconstruction · Hand surgery (Brunelli procedure) exam: Shoulder examination (Jobe's test, Adson's sign) · Elbow examination (Elbow extension test) · Wrist examination (Tinel sign/Phalen maneuver, Finkelstein's test)

Lower extremity	Hip resurfacing · Hip replacement · Rotationplasty · Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction · Knee replacement/Unicompartmental knee arthroplasty · Ankle replacement · Broström procedure · Triple arthrodesis exam: Hip examination · Knee examination (Drawer test, Ballottement) · Ankle examination (Simmonds' test) CPRs: Pittsburgh knee rules · Ottawa knee rules · Ottawa ankle rules

General	Arthrotomy · Arthroplasty · Synovectomy · Arthroscopy · Replacement joint imaging: Arthrogram Arthrocentesis

M: BON/CAR

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noco/cong/tumr, sysi/epon, injr

proc, drug(M5)

M: JNT

anat(h/c, u, t, l)/phys

noco(arth/defr/back/soft)/cong, sysi/epon, injr

proc, drug(M01C, M4)

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