bone infarction

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is a bone infarction the same as osteonecrosis??? i know that trauma (or any cutoff of the blood supply to the bone) is one of the reasons for this disease. i guess my question would be how exactly would the blood supply be cutoff??? please help ASAP

-- allyon leidhecker (ilovemyshellie@msn.com), February 21, 2005

Answers

Yes, bone infarction and AVN are essentially the same thing.

-- Marc Hungerford, M.D. (mhungerford@jhmi.edu), February 22, 2005.

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