Cranial Surgery - Other open operations on cerebral artery (Clean) (L34)

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Coding system
OPCS-4
Coding system release
unknown
Codelist ID
OxHPRU/cranial-surgery-other-open-operations-on-cerebral-artery-clean-l34
Version ID
724c8346
Number of codes included
6

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Procedure category: Cranial Surgery - Incision through the skull to excise, repair, or explore the brain, excludes taps or punctures.

Procedure subcategory: Other open operations on cerebral artery (Clean) (L34)

Methodology

Generated programmatically from the Surgical Site Infection Surveillance Service (SSISS) Operating Procedure Codes Supplement (OPCS) under the UK Open Government Licence v3.0. This includes codelists for 17 categories of surgical procedure. Within each category, there are subcategories of procedures. This codelist includes the codes for a single subcategory.

Procedure category notes: Note: Use a subsidiary code to identify method of image control (Y53) Use a subsidiary code for minimal access approach (Y76) The minimum wound class for cranial surgery is clean

Procedure subcategory notes: Includes: Artery of circle of Willis


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code term notes
0 L34.1 Reconstruction of cerebral artery
1 L34.2 Anastomosis of cerebral artery
2 L34.3 Open embolectomy of cerebral artery Includes: Open thrombectomy of cerebral artery Embolectomy of cerebral artery NEC Thrombectomy of cerebral artery NEC
3 L34.4 Open embolisation of cerebral artery
4 L34.8 Other specified
5 L34.9 Unspecified