Root Operation Examples

 ICD-10-PCS Root Operation Test 

ICD-10-PCS Practice Questions: 

Inpatient Coding Practice Questions.

Root Operations to Take Out Some or All of a Body Part

 

Excision, Resection, Detachment, Destruction, and Extraction

 

1.    Sigmoidoscopy with rectal polyp fulguration

Root Operation – Destruction

  

2.    Laparotomy with complete removal of sigmoid colon

Root Operation – Resection 

 

3.    Left 5^th toe ray amputation at the metatarsal-phalangeal joint

Root Operation – Detachment 

 

4.    Laparoscopic removal of right ovarian cyst

Root Operation – Excision 

 

5.    Diagnostic dilatation and curettage

Root Operation – Extraction 

 

6.    Bone marrow aspiration left iliac crest

Root Operation – Extraction 

 

7.    EGD with gastric biopsy

Root Operation – Excision 

 

8.    L5-S1 discectomy via laminotomy with moderate-sized fragments retrieved

Root Operation – Excision 

 

9.    Left upper lobectomy of lung via thoractom

Root Operation – Resection 

 

10.  TURP (transurethral resection of prostate)

Root Operation – Excision 

 

11.  Open retropubic prostatectomy

Root Operation – Resection

  

12.  Laparoscopic endometrial ablation

Root Operation – Destruction

  

13.  Revision of right BKA to AKA

Root Operation – Detachment

  

14.  Amputation above right knee, distal shaft of femur (Definition of Low:  Amputation at the distal portion of the shaft of the humerus or femur)

Root Operation – Detachment

 

 15.  Cauterization of nosebleed

Root Operation – Destruction