a small, raised lesion that actually appears to be a basal cell carcinoma. It is in the vermilion border. It is associated with some dimpling in the center and has the rather typical pearly appearance with two injected vessels.- does anyone have a guess as to what sounds like "two injected vessels might be.? This lesion is on her lip. ...
Doc dictates that the total skin advancement was 4 mm x 3 mm for a Tenzel type/ (sounds like) Mestarti-type flap. Any help would be greatly appreciated. ...
I can not understand a particular line in this dictation. It sounds like he is stating:
He was taken to the hospital where he was admitted with a CT of his head showing a 2-1-3 sign on the left basal ganglia hematoma...
The bold italic part is where I can not understand the dictation. Any idea what this might be?
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In a cranial CT I have always transcribed "basal" cistern, but in the report I have, the doctor clearly is stating "basilar" cistern. The Stedman's electronic dictionary I have shows "basal" cistern also. Can someone tell me which is correct, or are they interchangeable? Thank you. ...
Pathologist is dictating a micro on a lower lid lesion and says "A s/l kungraculum is considered but the histologic features are not classic for this process. ...
On MRA of brain with AVM. The arterial supply is predominantly from the left anterior choroidal artery, with smaller contributions arising from the left posterior choroidal artery and lenticulostriate perforating vessels. There is a deviated "strange" into the left basal vein of Rosenthal, left thalamostriate vein, and left anterior septal veins. ...
This patient is being seen for polyarthralgia, xerostomia, dysphagia, and gout. Under the impression/plan, "Xerostomia, polyarthralgia – the patient could have autoimmune disease, including a possible Sjogren's disease. The definitive diagnosis is a s/l piravic biopsy. However, that is not typically done in a patient."
She could possibly be saying "bite" in front of the word biopsy, but I can't tell if she's just stumbling over her words or if it's su ...
She also is status post sigmoid loop colostomy in 2007 with _____ biopsy. Sounds like the doc is saying ped-rectal biopsy. Can't find it anywhere. Any ideas? ...
I swear she is on a cell phone in a low service area on speaker mode. Aren't they supposed to dial in on a hospital phone? At one time a few years back, I thought it was against HIPAA to use cell phones for dictation. Drives a person nutty. ...
Patient has sickle cell disease with frequent vaso-occlusive pain crises... s/l "impressive aloe (spelled by dictator) immunization" in patient with moderate immune hemolytic anemia. I cannot find a reference for this aloe immunization. Does anybody have a clue if this is correct? ...
There was a single granuloma seen on biopsy but it was thought by the pathologist to possibly be secondary to an adjacent ruptured "crept"? Thanks for any help. ...