CPT Knowledgebase - Dec 7, 2021

A patient has a proximal femur bone tumor that does not require a radical resection (resection of a tumor with wide margins of normal tissue). The surgeon excises the 4-cm tumor by carving out the tumor from the bone with a curette and packs the defect with cement. What is the appropriate Current Procedural Terminology (CPT ) code(s) to report for this procedure?

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