207ZD0900X
207ZD0900X — Dermatopathology (Pathology) Physician
- Grouping
- Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians
- Classification
- Pathology
- Specialization
- Dermatopathology
- Section
- Individual
Definition
A dermatopathologist is an expert in diagnosing and monitoring 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 light microscopy, electron microscopy, and fluorescence microscopy.
NUCC’s own wording, not a paraphrase.
Other codes under Pathology
These are the codes a mis-selection most often lands on, because they share a classification and differ only by specialisation.
- 207ZB0001XBlood Banking & Transfusion Medicine
- 207ZC0006XClinical Pathology
- 207ZC0008XClinical Informatics
- 207ZC0500XCytopathology
- 207ZF0201XForensic Pathology
- 207ZH0000XHematology
- 207ZI0100XImmunopathology
- 207ZM0300XMedical Microbiology
- 207ZN0500XNeuropathology
- 207ZP0007XMolecular Genetic Pathology
- 207ZP0101XAnatomic Pathology
- 207ZP0102XAnatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology
- 207ZP0104XChemical Pathology
- 207ZP0105XClinical Pathology/Laboratory Medicine
- 207ZP0213XPediatric Pathology