A 67-year-old patient has osteomyelitis of the shoulder blade and is in surgery to remove the sequestered section of dead infected fragment bone from surrounding bone.
The key phrase is “remove the sequestered section of dead infected fragment bone”, which is a sequestrectomy performed for osteomyelitis.
23172 describes sequestrectomy of the scapula (shoulder blade).Therefore, C is correct.
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