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Human femoral shaft, post-mortem, compact bone adjacent to metal implant stem, showing mineralized apopototic debris in osteocyte lacuna in lamellar bone. 20-kV BSE of PMMA-embedded, polished, carbon-coated sample. Field width, 44 µm.