Read the Following Excerpt from a Health Record: Plan

question 37

Multiple Choice

Read the following excerpt from a health record: Plan
Recommendation:
We need to perform an endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatogram or magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatogram. Given the less invasive nature, I recommended Ms. Mendel have an MR cholangiogram, which is scheduled for later this week. If the results confirm primary sclerosing cholangitis, we will begin medical treatment and then schedule a percutaneous hepatic biopsy.
Which of the following statements is NOT true, given this health record information?

• A) Both the endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatogram and the magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatogram will give the health care professionals a map of the bile vessels (ducts) and pancreas.
• B) If the results confirm the patient's bile ducts are inflamed and hardening, the patient will have a liver biopsy.
• C) The author of this health record recommends an ERCP.
• D) The endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatogram involves using an endoscope, an instrument to look inside.
• E) The patient has been scheduled to have a test that will take a record of the bile vessels (ducts).

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