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Transfer Shoulder Bursa and Ligament, Right to No Qualifier with No Device, Percutaneous Endoscopic Approach
Procedural Specifications
| Clinical Axis | Detail Definition |
|---|---|
| Section | 0 Medical and Surgical |
| Body System | M Bursae and Ligaments |
| Operation | X Transfer |
| Body Part | 1 Shoulder Bursa and Ligament, Right |
| Approach | 4 Percutaneous Endoscopic |
| Device | Z No Device |
| Qualifier | Z No Qualifier |
Operation Definition
Moving, without taking out, all or a portion of a body part to another location to take over the function of all or a portion of a body part
Procedure Overview
Transfer procedures in this family move a bursa or ligament, or a portion of one, from its native location to a new site so it can take over the mechanical job normally performed by a different structure, without detaching its original blood and nerve supply. This is most often seen in tendon transfer surgery involving ligamentous tissue used to restore function after nerve injury, chronic tendon rupture, or joint instability where the original stabilizing structure can no longer do its job.
Because the tissue stays connected to its native blood supply, these procedures differ from a graft, which is fully detached and moved elsewhere. Surgeons choose this approach when a nearby ligament or bursal structure is healthy enough to be rerouted and can plausibly substitute for a damaged one, offering better long-term durability than an artificial replacement in select patients.
Anatomy & Axis Detail
Shoulder Bursa and Ligament, Right
The right shoulder's ligamentous complex, chiefly the coracoacromial and coracoclavicular ligaments along with the subacromial and subdeltoid bursae, provides both a gliding surface for rotator cuff excursion and the static restraint that keeps the humeral head and clavicle properly seated. When a surgeon transfers tissue here, a ligament segment is left attached to its native blood supply and mobilized to reinforce or replace a compromised neighboring structure, as in coracoacromial ligament transfer used to buttress a deficient rotator cuff or stabilize a chronically separated acromioclavicular joint. Because the shoulder bears such a wide arc of motion, documentation should specify which ligament segment was mobilized and which structure it was redirected to support, since several distinct ligaments share this same body part value.
Approach: Percutaneous Endoscopic
Percutaneous Endoscopic combines a puncture through skin or mucous membrane with insertion of an endoscope to visualize the procedure internally, as in laparoscopic cholecystectomy. It is distinguished from plain Percutaneous by the presence of scope-guided visualization, and from Via Natural or Artificial Opening Endoscopic by its route being a new puncture rather than an existing orifice or stoma.
Coding & Documentation
A code from this family applies when documentation clearly shows tissue being rerouted to a new location while remaining attached to its vascular pedicle, with the explicit intent of taking over another structure's function. The operative report should name both the origin site and the new destination, along with the functional deficit being addressed. Coders frequently misassign these cases as Transplantation, which requires the tissue to be completely freed from its original site, or as Repair, when the surgeon has simply reattached tissue back to its original position rather than relocating it to serve a new purpose.