A 72-year-old woman began to have excessive tears and it was found that she had a blockage of her nasolacrimal duct on the left side. She elected to have a nasal endoscopic dacryocystorhinostomy to create a passage from the nose directly to the lacrimal sac, allowing easy drainage. What is the correct code for this procedure?

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31239 is the correct code for surgical nasal endoscopy with dacryocystorhinostomy
Code 31237 is incorrect because an additional surgery was performed. Code 31238 is incorrect because there was no mention of a nasal hemorrhage and 31240 is incorrect because there was no resection performed.

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