D

Dacryocystectomy

Dacryocystography

Dacryocystorhinostomy

Dark Adaptometry

DATP

DCOR

DD

D-dimer test

Debridement

• of contaminated wound 30023
• of tissue, ischaemic limb 35100,35103

Debulking operation

• gynaecological malignancy 35720

Decompression

• fasciotomy, calf/forearm 47975,47978,47981
• fasciotomy, hand 47981
• of Arnold-Chiari malformation 40106
• of facial nerve, mastoid portion 41569
• of intracranial tumour 39706
• operation for priapism 37393
• subtemporal 40015

Deep organ

• percutaneous aspiration biopsy 30094
• tissue or organ, biopsy of 30074,30075,30078

Deep tissue or organ

• biopsy of 52027

Defaecogram

Defibrillator generator

• insertion/replacement 38393
• insertion of patches for 38390

Delorme procedure

DEN

Dengue - microbial antibody testing

Dental

Dermabrasion

Dermis, dermofat or fascia graft

Dermo-fat or fascia graft

Dermoid

• excision 52039
• excision of (see tumour, other)
• nasal, excision of 41729
• oral and maxillofacial region 45801-45807
• orbital, excision of 42574
• periorbital, excision of 42573

DESI

Desipramine

Detached retina

• diathermy/cryotherapy 42773
• retina, removal of silicone band 42812
• retina, resection/buckling/revision 42776

DEXA

Dexamethasone - suppression test

Dexamethasone

Dehydroepiandrosterone sulphate

DHEA

DHEAS

GHSE

DHTS

Dialysis

• peritoneal 13112
• supervision in home 13104
• supervision in hospital 13100,13103

Diaphragm

• plication of for eventration 43915

Diaphragmatic hernia

• neonatal, repair of 43837,43840
• hernia, repair of 30600,30601

Diaphyseal aclasia

• removal of lesion/s from bone 50426

Diastematomyelia

• tethered cord, release of 40112

Diathermy of

• bladder tumours 36845,36840
• cervix 35608,35646
• detached retina 42773
• electrocoagulation, of cervix 35644,35645
• palmar or plantar wart 30186
• perforation of tympanum 41641
• pharynx 41674
• rectal polyps with sigmoidoscopy 32078
• salivary gland duct 30262
• septum 41674
• starburst vessels, head or neck 30213,30214
• telangiectases, head or neck 30213,30214
• turbinates 41674
• urethra 37318

Diathermy

• salivary gland duct 52072

DIAZ

Diazepam

DIFF

Differential cell count

Diffusing capacity

DIG

Digit

• amputation of 46464-46480
• distal, excision of ganglion/mucous cyst 46495
• extra, amputation of 46464
• flexor/extensor contracture, correction of 46492
• or ray, transposition/transfer, vascular pedicle 46507
• synovectomy of tendon/s 46348-46360
• transposition/transfer, vascular pedicle 46507

Digital

• nail, toe, removal of 47904,47906
• nerve, nerve graft to 39318
• nerve, repair of 39300,39303
• temperature, measurement of 11615

Digits & phalanges

Digoxin

Dihydrotestosterone

DIL

Dilatation

• salivary gland duct 52072

DIP

Diphenylhydantoin (Dilantin)

Diphtheria - microbial antibody testing

Direct Coombs test

Direct flap repair

Disarticulation

• of limb (see amputation)

Disc

• intervertebral, laminectomy for removal 40300
• intervertebral, microsurgical discectomy of 40301
• lesion, recurrent, laminectomy for 40303
• lumbar intervertebral, total artificial replacement 48691-48693

Discectomy

• cervical (anterior), without fusion 40333
• microsurgical, of intervertebral disc/s 40301
• percutaneous lumbar 48636

Discography

Discontinuation of operative procedure

Disimpaction of faeces under GA

Dislocation

• mandible, treatment of 53203
• treatment of (see body part)

DISO

Disopyramide (Rythmodan)

Dissection

• lymph nodes of neck 31423-31438

Diverticulum

• bladder, excision/obliteration 37020
• Meckel's, removal of30375
• urethral, excision of 37372

DLAT

DNA, (double-stranded DNA) antibody

DNA binding - quantitation & measurement if positive ANA ANAP

Dohlman's operation

Domiciliary Medication Management Review

• attendance 900

Donald-Fothergill operation

Donath Landsteiner antibody test

Donor haemapheresis

Doppler recordings

Double balloon enteroscopy

Double vagina

• excision of septum 35566

Down's Syndrome and neural tube defects (see test groups at para PQ.4) NTDD

DOXE

Doxepin hydrochloride

Drez lesion

• operation for 39124

DRGO

Drill biopsy of lymph gland/deep tissue/organ

Drug delivery device

• drug delivery system for spasticity management 14227-14242
• loading of 13939,13942,13945

Drugs

• abuse treatment programme - assay 66626
• inappropriate dosage - assay 66623
• therapeutic - assay (See individual drugs) 66812

DSDNA

Duct

• salivary gland, diathermy or dilatation of 52072
• salivary gland, diathermy/dilatation 30262
• salivary gland, major, transposition of 41910
• salivary gland, marsupialisation 30265,30266
• salivary gland, meatotomy 30265,30266
• salivary gland, removal of calculus 30265,30266
• salivary gland, removal of calculus from 52075
• sublingual gland, removal of calculus from 52075
• submandibular, removal of 30255

Duodenal atresia

• duodeno-duodenostomy/jejunostomy 43807
• intubation 30487,30488
• stenosis, duodeno-duodenostomy/jejunostomy 43807
• ulcer, perforated, suture30375

Duodenoduodenostomy for duodenal atresia/stenosis

Duodenojejunostomy for duodenal atresia/stenosis

Duodenoscopy

Duodenum

• barium x-ray of 58909

Duplex scanning

• abdominal aorta, arteries, iliac arteries and veins 55276
• arteries/grafts lower limb 55238
• arteries/grafts upper limb 55248
• carotid and vertebral vessels 55274
• intra-cranial vessels 55280
• penis, cavernosal artery 55282
• penis, cavernosal tissue 55284
• renal/visceral vessels 55278
• veins lower limb, venous disease 55246
• veins lower limb, venous thrombrosis 55244
• veins upper limb 55252

Dupuytren's contracture

• operations for 46366-46393

D Vitamin

Dynamic function tests

Dysthyroid eye disease

• decompression of orbit42545
• device for delivery of therapeutic agents 14221-14242, 39133
• drug delivery system 39125,39126,39128
• drug delivery system for spasticity management 14227-14242
• loop recorder for investigation of syncope 11722
• pace maker testing 11718-11721
• pump or reservoir, loading of 14218
• reservoir associated with adjustable gastric band 14215

DXST