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A 35-year-old male patient was admitted to the hospital with pneumonia due to Pneumocystis carinii. The patient had been diagnosed with AIDS several years ago and has been undergoing treatment. Which ICD-10-CM codes should be assigned?

Vitiligo of the right lower eyelid and periocular area is represented by which ICD-10-CM code?

The final diagnosis for a 76-year-old woman is congestive heart failure, acute pulmonary edema, hypertension, and type 2 diabetes mellitus. Which ICD-10-CM codes should be assigned?

Acute gangrenous appendicitis. Postoperative paralytic ileus. Which ICD-10-CM codes should be assigned?

Which punctuation is used in the ICD-10-CM index to identify manifestation codes and in the ICD-10-CM index and tabular list to enclose abbreviations, synonyms, alternative wording, or explanatory phrases?

Which typeface is used for ICD-10-CM tabular list exclusion notes and to identify manifestation codes, which are never reported as the first-listed diagnoses?

Diabetes insipidus is represented by which ICD-10-CM code?

Codes that have an applicable seventh character are considered __________ without the seventh character.

If the primary site of malignancy is no longer present, assign a code for __________.

Cancer described as metastatic to a site is considered __________.