Patient had experience increasingly severe pain

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1. The patient had experience increasingly severe pain in his left arm, left shoulder, left neck for two months. Magnetic resonance imaging performed prior to admission showed evidence of a C7-T1 disc herniation. His only other health problem was benign hypertension which was controlled with medications. He was admitted for a cervical laminotomy and complete cervical discectomy of the cervical thoracic disc which were performed by oblique muscle splitting incision. His postoperative course was unremarkable and he was discharged after two days. Discharge diagnoses: (1) cervical disc herniation, C7-T1; (2) benign essential hypertension. What is the principal/discharge diagnosis CODE? cervical disk displacement, cervicothoracic region 2.) Outpatient encounter (episode 1): The patients complaints were neck pain that radiated into both arms and pain with numbness and clumsiness and electric shock, typing down her body when she bent down. A magnetic resonance imaging scan show marked spinal stenosis at C3-C4 and C5-C6. She was to be admitted for repair of the spinal stenosis. Diagnosis: spinal stenosis. Inpatient admission (episode 2): the patient was admitted for repair of spinal stenosis. An excision of discs at C3-C4 and C5-C6 with fusion was carried out using an anterior approach. A graft of bone was excised from the right iliac crest. Discharge diagnosis: severe cervical spine stenosis. What is the principal diagnosis CODE?

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