Results The typical imaging features of pathological changed vertebrae bones are dissolved bone border, expanded and soap bubble like inner structure, divided bone crest, etc.

To get to the bottom of this, a chemist recently took bone from the mummy of a Nubian child and dissolved it in hydrogen fluoride, a nasty acid that helps extract tetracycline.

During bone resorption, the inorganic components of the bone matrix were first dissolved and resorbed leaving behind rough and irregular collagen fibrils.