Surgical pathology to describe the clinical margin of debridement of chronic wounds using a wound electronic medical record.

Background: Chronic wounds, including diabetic foot ulcers (DFU), pressure ulcers (PU), and venous ulcers (VU) result from multiple physiologic impairments. Operative debridement is a mainstay of treatment to remove nonviable tissue and to stimulate wound healing. Unlike tumor resection, however, operative wound specimens are not routinely sent for pathology.

An assist to the next (10th) edition of Lever's Histopathology of the Skin.

Lever's Histopathology of the Skin, regarded as the gold standard textbook in the field of dermatopathology, claims to cut a swath through the discipline. In the last two editions, however, it appears to be declining in its overall scientific quality and academic mentality by failing to include different points of view set forth by other authors. Some ideas of a single author, coupled with appropriate references, are offered by me now for consideration for inclusion in the next (10th) edition of Lever's text.