Publication details
Doklady zhoubných nádorů ze středověké až časně novověké Moravy
| Title in English | Evidence for malignant tumours from medieval- early modern Moravia |
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| Year of publication | 2001 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Antropologický sborník Liblice - Sborník České společnosti antropologické |
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| Citation | |
| Field | Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology |
| Keywords | paleopathology; tumours; osteosarcoma; metastatic carcinoma; myeloma multiplex |
| Description | During the search for cancer in recently unearthed anthropological series from Moravia, five cases were identified in 1994. Of them, three were found in an ossuary at Krtiny (near Brno) dating 13th-18th centuries. Two of them were metastases of soft tissue carcinomas, one either myeloma multiplex or another haematological tumour. A calva from the cathedral of St. Petr and Paul (Brno) dated 14th-15th century yielded another example of a very progressed metastatic carcinoma. An osteoblastic tumour in the calva from the Medieval-Early Modern cemetery at Kyjov (East Moravia) was diagnosed as probable osteosarcoma. These finds doubled the number of described cancer cases from the past of our country. |
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