Contribution
Fibro-osseous processes (FOPs) of the craniofacial skeleton: A neglected entity in paleopathology?
Gresky, Julia
HOMO Volume 71 No 4 (2020), p. 281 - 297
publié: Nov 30, 2020
publication en ligne: Nov 4, 2020
manuscrit accepté: Aug 17, 2020
revision du manuscrit reçu: Aug 17, 2020
révision du manuscrit demandée: Jun 26, 2020
manuscrit reçu: Apr 2, 2020
Open Access (article peut être télechargé gratuitement)
Abstract
Discrete, small, roundish lesions of localized porous bone can be occasionally seen in the craniofacial skeleton. Such lesions are rarely mentioned and only occur as an incidental discovery being assigned to plenty of diagnoses. As an example, such multiple small lesions of the facial skeleton in a well-preserved skeleton of a 40–60 year old male of the Hunno-Sarmatian Period from Kazakhstan, are discussed. Some of the lesions were examined by digital microscopy, plain radiography, and plain and polarizing microscopy. Considering possible differential diagnoses of vascular, traumatic, inflammatory/reactive, metabolic, and neoplastic entities, as well as developmental conditions, its microscopic characteristics point to a fibro-osseous process. This paper intends to open a discussion on the diagnosis of such lesions, which have been relatively neglected in previous research.
Mots-clefs
fibro-osseous lesion • craniofacial dysplastic bone lesion • woven bone • multiple lines of diagnostic evidence