027W3ZZ

PCS Procedure

Dilation of Thoracic Aorta, Descending, Perc Approach

Dilation of Thoracic Aorta, Descending, Percutaneous Approach

About ICD-10-PCS code 027W3ZZ

ICD-10-PCS classifies this procedure as 027W3ZZ: Dilation of Thoracic Aorta, Descending, Percutaneous Approach. Table 027, part of Section 0 (Medical and Surgical) contains it. The procedure targets the Heart and Great Vessels body system. The approach used is Percutaneous.

Procedure Details

Section: [0] Medical and Surgical
Body System: Heart and Great Vessels
Root Operation: Dilation

Clinical Definitions

Root Operation · Operation

Dilation

Expanding an orifice or the lumen of a tubular body part

The orifice can be a natural orifice or an artificially created orifice. Accomplished by stretching a tubular body part using intraluminal pressure or by cutting part of the orifice or wall of the tubular body part

Includes: Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty, internal urethrotomy

Approach · Approach

Percutaneous

Entry, by puncture or minor incision, of instrumentation through the skin or mucous membrane and any other body layers necessary to reach the site of the procedure

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