Can you clarify the difference between shave removal and tangential biopsy?

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When our physician uses the shave technique to remove a lesion, sometimes it is a (2006)
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Is suture closure required in order to report the series of codes 11300-11313, Shaving of (2010)
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How is the excision of benign and malignant lesions of the skin reported? (2010)
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