PALAEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF BONE TUMOURS FROM MORAVIAN SITES, CZECH REPUBLIC
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| Year of publication | 2008 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Morphology 2008, Book of Abstracts |
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| Field | Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology |
| Keywords | paleopathology; bone tumours; bone remains |
| Description | More than 2500 skeletons or their parts from five Moravian sites dated from the 9th to the 19th centuries were assessed based on anthropological and paleopathological analyses. Common macroscopic, histological and roentgenologic examinations were used for tumour diagnostics. Only such tumours could be identified in this way, which cause direct or indirect pathological changes of bones in the form of osseous over production or lyses. Analysing available iconographic and literary sources has also brought important information on living and climatic conditions of investigated populations that influence the occurrence of tumours to a certain extent. Benign tumours mainly have been found in the examined sets. Traces of soft tissue tumour metastases have been found in six cases as well as one case of osteosarcoma and two cases of multiple myeloma. The investigation of tumour symptoms of skeletal remains of historical populations may contribute to a better understanding of relations during the development of this disease type and also to explaining the unprecedented growth of occurrence of malignant tumours above all in the human population of todays civilization. |
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