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Coder’s Anatomy: Douglas-Cul-de-Sac

Posted on 26. Jan, 2009 by .

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No, it’s not the new hot spot on Desperate Housewives, ob-gyn coders. It’s the area behind the uterus made up by the peritoneum between the rectum and the uterus. In your ob-gyns’s op notes, you’ll often see the cul-de-sac referred to it as the “rectouterine pouch.”

Op note coding clinic with Melanie Witt, Dr. Harry Stuber, Jan Rasmussen & Peggy Stilley.

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