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necrosis
(redirected from Avascular necrosis)

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In addition to synovial chondromatosis, the differential diagnosis of loose joint bodies in the TMJ includes osteochondral fracture fragments, condylar fracture, rheumatoid arthritis, degenerative arthritis, and avascular necrosis.
Avascular necrosis set in, and Carter underwent a second hip surgery Nov.
An overview of the growing problem of bone disease -- especially avascular necrosis (also called osteonecrosis, or aseptic necrosis), which is requiring an increasing number of hip replacements in persons who have had AIDS and been on HAART for many years, was published in the April 2002 issue of POZ ("Hip to the Future," by Anne-christine d'Adesky, page 28-31 and 39).
 
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