Antibiotic beads found with a skeletal example of complications from a hip replacement.

During maceration, a string of beads was found near the surgically modified right os coxa and femur of the remains of a 55-year-old woman donated to the Forensic Investigation Research Station at Colorado Mesa University. The remains were initially used in the study of decomposition of human remains, and then macerated to clean the skeleton. Documentation on this decedent noted three separate "hip replacement" surgeries, but no other details.