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**** Ususally but not always, a patient can have large deep areas with decubitus ulcers or fascitis that require extensive debridement but not always get skin graft.--[[User:FLindell|FLindell]] 08:59, 2012 November 30 (EST)
**** Ususally but not always, a patient can have large deep areas with decubitus ulcers or fascitis that require extensive debridement but not always get skin graft.--[[User:FLindell|FLindell]] 08:59, 2012 November 30 (EST)
***** So would you use 763.29 wound debridement, or [[83700 - Skin grafting/Debridement]]? My point here is that I am not sure how they are different. Ttenbergen 13:09, 2012 December 3 (EST)
***** So would you use 763.29 wound debridement, or [[83700 - Skin grafting/Debridement]]? My point here is that I am not sure how they are different. Ttenbergen 13:09, 2012 December 3 (EST)
**Skin grafting adds to the wound whereas debridement removes from the wound. They are completely different procedures.--[[User:CMarks|CMarks]] 13:31, 2012 December 4 (EST)


== re. burns ==
== re. burns ==