infarcts can occur in the shaft of a bone in several diseases:

  • Sickle cell Disease disease
  • Following radiation therapy
  • Incidentally in older people with no known cause.

In the acute phase

no abnormality is visible, other than a **very occasional Periosteal reaction*. Once healed, they appear as irregular calcification in the medulla of a long bone

There is calcification in the medulla of the femur and tibia.