This procedure is known as a D&C (dilatation and curettage).

Endocervical curettage-- Biopsy performed with a curette to scrape the mucous membrane of the cervical canal.

Although curettage may refer to any kind of surgical cutting away of tissue, it is best known in the procedure called "dilation and curettage" where the tissue is removed from the lining of the uterus.

Abrasion is the accidental scraping of tissue. One term for the deliberate scraping of tissue is shave biopsy; another very different type of scraping is curettage.

Code 59812 is used to report the dilation and curettage (either sharp or suction curettage) for the surgical management of an incomplete abortion. However, if the patient is septic and is diagnosed as experiencing an incomplete abortion, do not use code 59812.