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**[[Pleura, metastatic malignancy to it (also code primary site)]] -- which also includes malignant pleural effusion | **[[Pleura, metastatic malignancy to it (also code primary site)]] -- which also includes malignant pleural effusion | ||
**[[Tuberculosis of the respiratory system, confirmed]] -- which also includes tuberculous pleural effusion | **[[Tuberculosis of the respiratory system, confirmed]] -- which also includes tuberculous pleural effusion | ||
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* This code is a "potential infection" so now requires [[Not an Infection (ICD10 pathogen alternative)]] to be entered. There has been some concern that this code would never be an infection and any such infection would be coded as [[Empyema (pyothorax)]]. Should the code be removed from the potential infection category? [[User:Ttenbergen|Ttenbergen]] 13:15, 2021 April 8 (CDT) | |||
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== Alternate ICD10s to consider coding instead or in addition == | == Alternate ICD10s to consider coding instead or in addition == | ||