Lymph Nodes Assessment Method Femoral-Inguinal (Vagina)

Organization	Field Name	ID#	ID Name	Required

Organization	Field Name	ID#	ID Name	Required
KCR	LN Assessment Method Femoral-Inguinal	34068	FEINLNAssessment	yes
SEER	Lymph Nodes Assessment Method Femoral-Inguinal	3871	lnAssessMethodFemoralInguinal	yes

Note 1 Physician Statement

Physician statement of the femoral-inguinal assessment methodcan be used to code this data item when no other information is available.

Note 2 Lower third of vagina

Code this data item for the lower third of the vagina only.
Code 9 for upper two thirds of the vagina, or unknown whether it’s the lower third or upper two thirds

Note 3 Femoral-inguinal nodes

Note 4 Isolated tumor cells

Note 5 Related data item

The status of the lymph nodes is recorded in the related data item 3859 LN Status Femoral-Inguinal.

Code	Description

Code	Description
0	Radiography, imaging (Ultrasound (US), computed tomography scan (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), positron emission tomography scan (PET))

Physical exam only|

1	Incisional biopsy; fine needle aspiration (FNA)
2	Lymphadenectomy Sentinel node biopsy Excisional biopsy or resection with microscopic confirmation
7	Femoral-inguinal lymph node(s) assessed, unknown assessment method
8	Not applicable: Information not collected for this case (If this item is required by your standard setter, use of code 8 will result in an edit error.)
9	Not documented in medical record Femoral-inguinal lymph node(s) not assessed or unknown if assessed