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The predictive power of palaeopathology [PDF]
The Lancet Microbe, 2023 As palaeopathologists, we could not agree more with AbdulRahman A Saied and colleagues' statement that “[a]nalysis of historical specimens will deepen our understanding of virus evolution, enhancing our ability to predict and interpret the impact of various genetic changes.”1 We also value their reference to the potential antiquity of coronaviruses, as
Galassi F. M., Habicht M. E., Varotto E.
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Adipositas and metabolic bone disorder in a 16th century Upper Austrian infant crypt mummy—An interdisciplinary palaeopathological insight into historical aristocratic life [PDF]
Frontiers in Medicine, 2022 We describe here the results of a multidisciplinary study on an infant mummy from 16th century Upper Austria buried in the crypt of the family of the Counts of Starhemberg. The macroscopic-anthropological, radiological (whole-body CT scan), histological (
Andreas G. Nerlich +4 more
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A historical and palaeopathological perspective on cancer. [PDF]
J Prev Med HygCancer is often wrongly considered to be a modern disease in many popular medical venues. Cancers have been known to mankind since ancient times. In fact, its antiquity can be proved through the application of palaeopathological methodologies. The present perspective piece demonstrates by means of a historical and palaeopathological analysis how ...
Galassi FM +4 more
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Multiple Dental Agenesis with an Impacted Maxillary Canine in an Early Medieval Dog (Canis lupus familiaris) from Wolin, Poland—A Case Study [PDF]
AnimalsDental developmental anomalies are well documented in clinical veterinary medicine but remain rarely reported in archeological dogs. This study presents a radiologically confirmed case of an unerupted left maxillary canine associated with the absence of ...
Piotr Baranowski +2 more
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Methodological aspects of differentiation of hyperostosis frontalis interna based on computed tomography of the skulls [PDF]
Вестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии, 2022 Hyperostosis frontalis interna (HFI) is a pathological condition characterized by bilateral thickening of the inner surface of the frontal bone. HFI is often an incidental finding during routine clinical examinations of patients by computed tomography ...
Buzhilova A.P. , Kolyasnikova A.S.
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Animals, 2022 There is no doubt that the cultural and urban environments contributed to the animal–human interaction in the daily life of the ancient Roman world. The singularity of the circumstances of the burial of Pompeii and Herculaneum, together with literary ...
Carmen Tanga +2 more
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Anthropological Review, 2023 The aim of this study is to present the pathological lesions observed in a skeleton (male, about 35–38 years old) from Radom (Poland), dated to the 18th–19th century. Bone changes were observed in both femurs and both pelvic bones.
Anna Myszka +4 more
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Acta Medica Lituanica, 2022 I this study, we examine human skeletal remains from the church of San Francis of Paola located in the small town of Sant’Angelo di Brolo, in the Italian region of Sicily.
Aurelija Kemežytė +1 more
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Frontiers in Earth Science, 2023 Paleopathological investigations of human remains from the Neolithic Hemudu culture in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River in southern East Asia were conducted to clarify the health status of people in early rice-farming societies.
Junmei Sawada +7 more
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Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris, 2022 Spondylolysis is a bony defect of the pars interarticularis mainly arising from repeated traumas. Other factors such as spina bifida occulta (SBO) are mentioned in clinical and palaeopathology but have been little studied.
Marie Devos +7 more
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