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Skin Replacement Surgery: 15120, 15121
autograft or autologous graft
A skin graft involves taking a piece of skin from an unburned portion of the patient's body (autograft) and transplanting it to the burned area.
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An autograft is a type of graft that uses skin from another area of the patient's own body if there is enough undamaged skin available, and if the patient is healthy enough to undergo the additional surgery required.
Autograft: Tissue transplanted from one part of the body to another in the same individual. Also called an autotransplant.autograft means when a peice of your body is moved to some where else on your body like if u have a burn you have a skin graft that's what a autograft is
A strawberry nevus is a benign organism, and so can be coded as a removal. The code number used could be 15120 or 15121.
An allograft is a transplant from another member of the same species ( human to human) while and autograft is a transplant from one area of a patient to another (skin graft from upper thigh to foot)
Skin Graft Records was created in 1991.
first sucessful skin graft?
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