WPS Medicare Booklet July 23, 2012

Within ICD-O cancer diagnoses should be recorded as a pair of codes: a morphology code stating the histopathological tumour type, and a site code stating the anatomical location of the primary. SNOMED CT closely mirrors content in ICD-O and offers specific and extensive separate hierarchies for morphologies and body structures; but (unlike READ ... ................
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