This 10 percent rating and the other partial ratings of 30 percent or less are to be combined with ratings for ankylosis, limited motion, nonunion or malunion, shortening, etc., subject, of course, to the amputation rule. Note (1): A rating of 10 percent, as an exception to the amputation rule, is to be assigned in any case of active osteomyelitis where the amputation rating for the affected part is no percent. Inactive, following repeated episodes, without evidence of active infection in past 5 years With discharging sinus or other evidence of active infection within the past 5 years With definite involucrum or sequestrum, with or without discharging sinus Of the pelvis, vertebrae, or extending into major joints, or with multiple localization or with long history of intractability and debility, anemia, amyloid liver changes, or other continuous constitutional symptomsįrequent episodes, with constitutional symptoms
5000 Osteomyelitis, acute, subacute, or chronic:
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