207ND0900X — Dermatopathology Physician

Grouping

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians

Classification

Dermatology

Specialization

Dermatopathology

Section

Individual

Definition

A dermatopathologist has the expertise to diagnose and monitor diseases of the skin including infectious, immunologic, degenerative and neoplastic diseases. This entails the examination and interpretation of specially prepared tissue sections, cellular scrapings and smears of skin lesions by means of routine and special (electron and fluorescent) microscopes.

NUCC’s own wording, not a paraphrase.

Other codes under Dermatology

These are the codes a mis-selection most often lands on, because they share a classification and differ only by specialisation.

• 207N00000XDermatology
• 207ND0101XMOHS-Micrographic Surgery
• 207NI0002XClinical & Laboratory Dermatological Immunology
• 207NP0225XPediatric Dermatology
• 207NS0135XProcedural Dermatology