Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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6554842 | International Journal of Paleopathology | 2015 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
A left tibia, the distal right tibia, and the proximal four fifths of the right ulna and radius, probably belonging to an adult prehispanic man (antiquity of â1000 years BP) were found among commingled bone remains in a collective burial cave of the island of El Hierro, in the Canary Archipelago. All four bones show an intense periosteal bone formation, encrusting the preserved cortical bone of the diaphyses. Differential diagnosis include melorheostosis, syphilis, and leprosy, although the most likely diagnosis is hypertrophic osteoarthropathy, which is usually associated with lung neoplasm or non-malignant diseases leading to chronic hypoxemia. The marked bone proliferation, possibly due to a chronic condition, suggests that possibly the underlying illness was a non-malignant one.
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Authors
Emilio González-Reimers, Aioze Trujillo-Mederos, Manuel Machado-Calvo, MarÃa Castañeyra-Ruiz, Alejandra C. Ordóñez, Matilde Arnay-de-la-Rosa,