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sequestrum

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sequestrum [si′kwes·trəm]
(medicine)
A piece of dead or detached bone within a cavity, abscess, or wound.


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Improvement of the osteomyelitis may also have been facilitated by the biopsy procedure, during which a sequestrum of bone was removed.
13) CT will detect lytic areas within the diploe that contain soft tissue; the soft tissue is usually homogeneous, but it can include a bony sequestrum.
A floating bone sequestrum was seen on the floor of the outer part of the external auditory canal and was undermined partly by skin.
 
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