The most severe case of multiple osteochondromas in paleopathological record is from an Early Medieval burial site in the Venetian Lagoon
Serena Viva,
Norma Lonoce,
Lorenzo Bigo
et al.
Abstract:In recent years, paleopathological cases from ancient contexts are being increasingly taken into account to reconstruct the clinical history of a number of diseases, in particular congenital ones, at times still featuring in the genes of present-day populations. The skeleton of a male (T97) with an estimated age-at-death of 40–45 years has been found in the Early Medieval phase of an archaeological site in the Venetian Lagoon (north-east Italy). Through the osteoarchaeological study, full skeletal CT, histopat… Show more
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