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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Oct 16.
Published in final edited form as: Epidemiol Res Int. 2012;2012:970406. doi: 10.1155/2012/970406

Table 2.

Cases where metastases were missed by ICD-9 algorithms but confirmed on chart review.

(a) Cases where metastases were missed by algorithm A (ICD-9 198.5 or 198.3 or 197.0 or 197.7) but confirmed on chart review
Patient
40 Prostascint scan shows equivocal bone metastases; differential includes metastasis versus meningioma. Not biopsied.
207 Bone scan and MRI show bone metastases.
294 Bone scan and CT scan show bone metastases.
(b) Cases where metastases were missed by algorithm B (ICD-9 198.5) but confirmed on chart review
Patient
40 Prostascint scan shows equivocal bone metastases; differential includes metastasis versus meningioma. Not biopsied.
207 Bone scan and MRI show bone metastases.
294 Bone scan and CT scan show bone metastases.
3 MRI shows liver metastases.
50 MRI shows bone, brain, and lung metastases.
164 CT scan shows metastases to lung pleura.