Ancient Diseases in Vertebrates: Tumours through the Ages

A Garcês, I Pires, S Garcês - Animals, 2024 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Simple Summary: Our research, made possible by recent advancements,
has led to more accurate diagnoses of ancient pathologies, despite the rarity of well …

A differentially diagnosed simple bone cyst from a medieval Polish osteological collection

TJ Siek, AE Spinek - International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This case study describes and provides a differential diagnosis for a femoral lesion.
Individual M81 was a young adult male from Milicz, a 12th–13th century cemetery, and a …

Tumors and neoplastic diseases: assessing antiquity and pondering prevalence

CL Kirkpatrick - The Routledge handbook of paleopathology, 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
Modern medical techniques have contributed to an increase in the detection and diagnosis
of neoplastic diseases, both benign and malignant, in recent history. However, for some …

[HTML][HTML] Solitary osteochondromas in paleo-oncology: A case report from 4th-century BCE Pontecagnano (southern Italy)

G Riccomi, G Aringhieri, A Serritella, V Giuffra - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Objective This study presents a new case of solitary osteochondroma (SOC) identified on
the proximal tibia of a 4th-century BCE individual from Pontecagnano (Salerno, Italy) with an …

Differential diagnosis of an osseous cranial tumor from Hellenistic Muğla, Turkey

EA Bews, AI Aytek, AY Yavuz, EH Kaya… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Objective This project evaluates a cranial lesion from a Hellenistic-era individual excavated
by the Muğla Archaeological Museum in Gülağzı, Turkey. Materials An osseous tumor …

Malignancy in three medieval Polish osteological collections

TJ Siek, C Rando, AE Spinek, A Cieślik… - Journal of Archaeological …, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper presents the archaeological skeletal remains of four adult females presenting
with cranial lesions typical of malignant neoplastic disease. The four cases were sourced …

Osteoma of the zygomatic bone from 16th century Sardinia (Italy) in the framework of a paleoepidemiological study

G Valentina, R Luigi, B Ileana, M Marco - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Objective The aim of this paper is to evaluate a case of osteoma of the zygomatic bone in a
post-medieval individual in the context of a paleoepidemiological approach. Materials Forty …

Real Hospital de São João de Deus do Castelo-Análise de uma série osteológica moderna da Rua do Recolhimento, Lisboa, Portugal

CM Leirião - 2021 - estudogeral.uc.pt
O Real Hospital de São João de Deus do Castelo (séc. XVII a XVIII) localizava-se em
Lisboa, junto ao Castelo de São Jorge e surgiu para tratar os soldados da Guerra da …