Skin graft, correct wording?
Posted By: jr on 2007-07-24
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Subject: Skin graft, correct wording?
New to this type of procedure - split thickness skin graft. Dictator states "one twelve thousandths of an inch". What is the correct way to type this?
Thanks.
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