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CPT Knowledgebase - Jul 27, 2006
If the laboratory receives a specimen labeled "right breast" from a patient undergoing a simple mastectomy, and then 60 minutes later receives a second specimen from the same patient, labeled right breast (containing additional breast tissue), how should I report the examination of the second specimen?
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