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No, osteomyelitis is inflammation (usually due to infection) of bone marrow and surrounding bone.

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Can Osteomyelitis cause bone cancer if left untreated?

Osteomyelitis, is an infection of the bone, which is difficulty to treat due to low blood flow. Treatment is long (like 4 weeks) and usually via IV antibiotics. If you don't get that treated, bone cancer would be the least of your worry. You'd be more likely to die from the untreated infection sooner than any bone cancer can kill you.


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dose osteomyelitis means bone abscess?


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Osteomyelitis is a bone and bone marrow infection. The three stages of the disease are acute, subacute, and chronic stages. The Cierny-Mader Staging System for Long Bone Osteomyelitis has four stages which are the medullary, superficial, localized, and diffuse osteomyelitis.


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What is the medical terminology word for inflammation of the bone and bone marrow?

Myelitis is infection or inflammation of the bone marrow. Osteomyelitis is more common - infection or inflammation of the bone and neighboring bone marrow. If these conditions are caused by bacteria, they may be called bacterial myelitis or bacterial osteomyelitis.


What is ostso mylitis?

its an acute infection of the bone and/or bone marrow osteomyelitis is infection of the bone


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Osteomyelitis is an infection of bone that can occur in any age group. ... Causes of osteomyelitis include bacteria in the bloodstream from infectious diseases that spread to the bone, an open wound from a trauma over a bone, and recent surgery or injection in or around a bone.


Connection between a superiosteal abscess and osteomyelitis - any ideas?

The connection between a superiosteal abscess and osteomyelitis is that they are both conditions of the bones. A superiosteal abscess is found between the periosteum and cortical plate of a bone and osteomyelitis is an infection of the bone.


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