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Fig. 7 | Insights into Imaging

Fig. 7

From: The clothes maketh the sign

Fig. 7

Lateral projection of the skull in a 63-year-old diabetic patient with fever and occipital scalp pain demonstrates a lucent lesion with a central opacity resembling a button (inset). The infectious organism destroys the bone, which is replaced by purulent material and granulation tissue, producing a lucency. Central opacity represents an island of dead bone (“button sequestrum”)

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