A 51-Year-Old Female Patient Is Brought to the Operating Room

A 51-year-old female patient is brought to the operating room for an extraoral incision and drainage of a sublingual abscess. Upon arriving at the Incision codes in the Digestive System subsection Tongue and Floor of the Mouth (41000-41019) , which piece of information will begin the coder's selection of the appropriate procedure code?

A) abscess is in the sublingual region
B) intraoral or extraoral approach
C) patient is female
D) patient is 51 years old