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Intramedullary Cavitation Album -- Photo #5 *

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Hollow Mandible with Thinned, Discolored Alveolar Nerve Exposed

A thin, fragile strand of neural tissue is all that remains of the inferior alveolar neurovascular bundle in a hollow posterior mandible site, with dark hemorrhage pooled in irregularities of the cavitational floor.  No inferior alveolar vein or artery is present.

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* Photo courtesy of Drs. James Shen & Rily Young, Huntington Beach, California