Multifocal eosinophilic granuloma with a possible trepanation in a fourteenth century Greek young skeleton
✍ Scribed by Ethne Barnes; Donald J. Ortner
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 170 KB
- Volume
- 7
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1047-482X
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✦ Synopsis
Multiple lytic lesions in the cranial remains of a young adolescent from medieval Corinth in Greece, display characteristics best associated with multifocal eosinophilic granuloma. Some of the lesions have marginal sclerosis indicative of healing. The lesions vary in size from less than one centimeter in diameter to over two centimeters. The larger lesions, in particular, appear to be the result of con¯uence between two or more lytic foci. These lesions, rarely described in archaeological skeletal material, result from a pathological disturbance within the reticuloendothelial system. One of the cranial lesions has a different appearance from the other lesions and may have been produced by a therapeutic trepanation.