Chronic osteomyelitis is diagnosed mainly by:
Sequestrum is the dead bone separated out from the living bone by the granulation tissue. The factors responsible for bone death in chronic osteomyelitis are: raised intravascular pressure Vascular stasis and small vessel thrombosis periosteal stripping bacterial toxins Sequestrum is the hall mark of chronic osteomyelitis Involucrum--periosteal new bone forming later
Sequestrum
Bone fracture
Deformity
Brodie's abscess
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