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Types of Surgery: Colon


X = complete     * = partial          o = optional

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  Segment Colon Lymph nodes Other Organs#
Local tumor destruction without specimen
Includes cryosurgery, fulguration, laser
surgery (vaporization), electrocautery
*      
Local excision with pathologic specimen
Includes endoscopic snare, excisional
laser surgery, polypectomy
*      
Partial (subtotal) colectomy but less than
hemicolectomy; includes
wedge resection, segmental resection,
cecectomy (cecum), transverse colectomy, sigmoidectomy (sigmoid),
ileocolectomy, enterocolectomy,
partial resection of a colonic flexure
X  * X o
Hemicolectomy but less than total colectomy
total colectomy Includes colectomy
(right/ascending or left/descending)
from mid-transverse laterally
   * X o
Total colectomy
Includes cecum through to sigmoid/
rectosigmoid or part of rectum
  X o
Colectomy, Not Otherwise Specified,
NOS
*/X * X o
Colectomy of any type plus partial/total
removal of other organs
  */X X o
Surgery of regional and/or distant sites
or nodes
    *

Other organs include mesentery, mesocolon, peritoneum, omentum, and/or terminal ileum

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