When a dislocation is associated with a fracture where the fracture is close to the joint where the disarticulation took place, the coder would ______.
A) only assign the fracture code
B) only assign the dislocation code
C) assign both dislocation and fracture codes
D) assign a combined code for dislocation and fracture
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