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Topic Review Activity

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Read the following question and select the correct answer.   

Which statement best describes a Stage 3 PU?

Full thickness tissue loss extending through dermis to involve subcutaneous tissue. Presents as a shallow crater unless covered by eschar.
Fat obliterated, limited by deep fascia and undermining of the skin.
Full thickness skin loss involving damage or necrosis of subcutaneous tissue that may extend down to, but not through, underlying fascia. The ulcer presents clinically as a deep crater with or without undermining of adjacent tissue.
Full thickness ulceration through to the junction with subcutaneous tissue.

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Last updated: 27 March, 2008
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