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Osteomyelitis

"Osteomyelitis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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INFLAMMATION of the bone as a result of infection. It may be caused by a variety of infectious agents, especially pyogenic (PUS - producing) BACTERIA.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Osteomyelitis" by people in this website by year, and whether "Osteomyelitis" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 34 publications over 20 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 1994 and 2006 and 2011 and 2013 and 2016
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