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JESSE O. BASADRE, MD
Miami, Fla

SAMUEL W. PARRY, MD
New Orleans, La

Arch Surg. 1992;127(2):240.

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In Reply.—The comments by Fackler et al regarding the terminology of surgical débridement were well received. We agree that our use of the term surgical débridement may indeed be confusing. In our study we defined débridement as surgical excision of devitalized/contaminated tissue and not simply wound incision. Our excision of tissue was extended to healthy adjacent tissue.

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