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james · **on:** Jun 27, 2018

This procedure requires the placement of stitches to connect a corneal graft to the central part of the cornea for correction of a missing lens from the eye. What is this procedure called?
A) keratoplasty
B) epikeratophakia
C) evisceration
D) lensopexy

Question 2

Ms. Rhit is a coding specialist at the Valley Endocrinology group practice. She is reviewing the following codes that have been selected for the diagnoses listed. For the following questions, if the code given is correct, record correct for your answer. If the code given is incorrect, supply the correct code. Select the appropriate ICD-9-CM code(s) using an ICD-9-CM code book.

Islet cell hyperplasia, 251.1