A surgeon is writing a post-op note when making hospital rou…
A surgeon is writing a post-op note when making hospital rounds that reads: ” This 68 year old male is 2 days S/p VATS sx with excision of a suspicious lesion near the bronchial junction with left lower lobe. The specimen report was just received in the patient’s EMR. The pathologist determined after staining and reading the tissue sent as a frozen section, the tissue is confirmed with negative margins. The listed Dx is adenocarcinoma. What does Dx stand for?