Ecografia das artérias temporais

"Como se codifica ecografia de artérias temporais num estudo de suspeita de artrite de células temporais?"

(Responde Fernando Lopes)
 
 
A ter que codificar uma ecografia das artérias temporais terá de se utilizar, na tabela 
B34 Imaging - Upper Arteries - Ultrasonography 
a body part Common Carotid Artery (left) ... (right) ... (bilateral).
 
Porquê?
 
Por causa da aplicação da Guideline B4.2
 
Branches of body parts
 
Where a specific branch of a body part does not have its own body part value in PCS, the body part is typically coded to the closest proximal branch that has a specific body part value. In the cardiovascular body systems, if a general body part is available in the correct root operation table, and coding to a proximal branch would require assigning a code in a different body system, the procedure is coded using the general body part value.
Examples: 
A procedure performed on the mandibular branch of the trigeminal nerve is coded to the trigeminal nerve body part value.
Occlusion of the bronchial artery is coded to the body part value Upper Artery in the body system Upper Arteries, and not to the body part value Thoracic Aorta, Descending in the body system Heart and Great Vessels.
 
Note-se que a codificação deste e de outros exames auxiliares de diagnóstico não é obrigatória