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Dead Bone = Osteonecrosis

The classic definition of osteonecrosis was missing osteocytes. This is still true for the severe form, i.e. avascular necrosis, but ischemic cell death is patchy, affecting cells being fed by a common vessel, rather than uniform and complete, as in osteomyelitis.

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