The incidence of the synostotic and/or deformational plagiocephaly was investigated in the collection of 745 dry skulls (647 skulls of adults of both sexes, 98 skulls of children) from "Broumov Ossuary" (13 th -18 th century), Czech 219 ORIGINAL ARTICLE PALEOPATHOLOGICAL FINDINGS OF DRY SKULLS WITH PLAGIOCEPHALY Blanka Pospíšilová, Olga ProcházkováCharles University in Prague, Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové, Czech Republic: Department of Anatomy Summary: In literature, plagiocephaly is defined as abnormal asymmetrical head shape with unilateral flattening of the anterior and/or posterior part of the skull. It is classified as synostotic or deformational. Synostotic plagiocephaly is the result of premature unilateral fusion of neurocranim sutures. Positional plagiocephaly is caused by asymmetrical intrauterine and/or postnatal external forces. The authors report findings of both types of plagiocephaly in the dry skull collection from pertaining Broumov Ossuary (13 th -18 th century), Czech Republic. In the paper, the incidence of paleopathological asymmetrical skull deformities is discussed in the context with recent clinical data.
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