HL7 FHIR® Implementation Guide: Breast Cancer Data, Release 1 - US Realm (Draft for Comment)

This page is part of the Breast Cancer Data Logical Models and FHIR Profiles (v0.1.0: STU 1 Draft) based on FHIR R3. . For a full list of available versions, see the Directory of published versions

BC BreastSpecimenCollectionMethodCS CodeSystem

The surgical method used to obtain the tissue sample.

This code system http://hl7.org/fhir/us/breastcancer/CodeSystem/oncology-BreastSpecimenCollectionMethodCS defines the following codes:

CodeDisplayDefinition
core Core needle biopsyCore needle biopsy
fna Fine needle aspirationFine needle aspiration
mastectomy Total mastectomyTotal mastectomy
excision Excision less than total mastectomyExcision less than total mastectomy
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References

This code system is used by the following value sets: