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Mary Matthews was found to have a breast lump during a mammogram last month. She is admitted today for a breast biopsy of her left breast. The pathology report returns with infiltrating papillary breast carcinoma of the left breast. Mary’s mother had breast cancer in her fifties. What is the correct code assignment?

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The correct code for Mary's breast carcinoma assignment is C50.912, Z80.3 and is denoted as option D.

What is Medical coding?

This is referred to the process ion which diagnosis, treatment etc is translated into numeric or alphanumeric letters.

The code C50.912 represents breast carcinoma in females while Z80.3 means that there was a family history which resulted in its occurrence which is specified by Mary's mother experiencing it too.

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The options include:

A) D05.12

B) D05.12, Z80.3

C) C50.312

D) C50.912, Z80.3

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