A Brodie abscess is a well defined rim of sclerotic bone surrounding a residual abscess; viable organisms may persist in a Brodie abscess.^[1] Sclerosis is a hardening of tissue, and can refer to: multiple sclerosis, a central nervous system disease which affects coordination hippocampal sclerosis, a brain damage oftenly seen in individuals with temporal lobe epilepsy systemic sclerosis (progressive systemic scleroderma), a rare, chronic disease which affects the skin, and in some cases... Grays Anatomy illustration of a human femur. ... Look up Abscess in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

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1. ^ Brodie abscess: another type of chronic posttraumatic osteomyelitis. Eur Radiol. 2003 Jul;13(7):1750-2. Epub 2003 Feb 7. PMID 12835993