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Bone
Non-neoplastic or metabolic disease
Necrosis

Topic Completed: 1 August 2013

Revised: 27 December 2018

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Definition / general | Microscopic (histologic) description

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Definition / general

See aseptic bone necrosis, radiation necrosis

Microscopic (histologic) description

Dead bone stains deeper blue than normal bone, no lacunar cells, margins of bone are ragged
May have osteoclasts on bone margins