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Clinical Indication: Carcinoma of the Right Breast, Mastectomy and Chemotherapy

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Clinical Indication: Carcinoma of the right breast, mastectomy and chemotherapy completed with no recurrence; now presents with skeletal metastases.
Procedure: Multiple tomograms of L. lung show no dominant nodules within the lung. Multiple osteolytic metastases are present in several of the ribs in posteriolateral aspect involving third, fourth, fifth, six, and seventh ribs. Small amount of pleural reaction is noted in the L costophrenic angle. Hilar shadows are unremarkable. Shadow for L breast is absent.
Impression: No definite metastatic nodules in L lung. Multiple mixed osteolytic and osteoblastic changes in several ribs in the L chest probably due to metastatic neoplasm.
Select the appropriate CPT and ICD-10-CM codes.


A) 71250, C79.51
B) 71260, C50.911
C) 71250, Z85.3
D) 71250, C79.51, Z85.3

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