AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-9 - 1998 Fourth Quarter

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A patient is admitted with hemiplegia and aphasia. A CAT scan of the brain demonstrates a cerebral infarct, and the diagnosis of acute cerebral infarction is made. Would it be appropriate to assign codes 342.90, Hemiplegia, unspecified and 784.3, Aphasia or codes 438.20, Hemiplegia affecting unspecified side and 438.11, Speech and language deficits, aphasia, for the neurologic deficits? ...

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