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Iatrogenic burns

Lately, we became aware of a letter to the editor commenting on our manuscript entitled “Congenital burns?” in the journal Burns. The comment made by Mr. Kanchan is not critical of the suggestion made by us, but instead seeks to provide another term ‘iatrogenic congenital burns’, which we believe is a tautology. As already emphasized, case reports of rarity certainly serve as a valuable knowledge bank to the clinical fraternity and help the practicing clinicians in the management of similar rare clinical cases encountered during their medical practice . There is no denying the fact that the case report published by Mr. Suliman is one such case of importance. The circumstances of iatrogenic burns as observed by Mr. Suliman are undoubtedly worth reporting in the present era of increa…