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INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON POROUS SKELETAL: Achievements and future directions

CIAS-FCT, DCV-FCTUC, FCTUC, FLAD

Mycobacterium leprae diversity and population dynamics in medieval Europe from ...

Background: Hansen’s disease (leprosy), widespread in medieval Europe, is today mainly prevalent in tropical and subtropical regions with around 200,000 new cases reported annually. Despite its long history and appearance in historical records, its origins and past dissemination patterns are still widely unknown. Applying ancient DNA approaches to its major causative agent, Mycobacterium leprae, can significant...

Fatores que influenciam a adesão dos profissionais de saúde (médicos e enfermei...

Pediatric idiopathic midgut volvulus and shock in the infant

Introduction: Intestinal volvulus is a surgical emergency in which a segment of the intestine twists over its mesenteric attachment, causing bowel obstruction. It usually presents with bilious vomiting and can progress to bowel necrosis and shock. Case Report: A 40-days-old male infant presented with acute onset irritability, bilious vomiting, abdominal distention, and hematochezia. He rapidly evolved to shock ...

A lunate-triquetral coalition from a commingled funerary context from the Chalc...

Carpal coalitions, resulting from a failure of separation of the cartilaginous precursors of the carpal bones during gestation, may be osseous or non-osseous. Even though lunate-triquetral coalitions are the most common of all carpal coalitions there is only one previous palaeopathological report of such a coalition. This study presents a non-osseous lunate-triquetral coalition found amongst the mostly cremated...

Exostosis auditiva externa en individuos adultos del Holoceno Tardío (1500 AP -...

External auditory exostosis (EAE) is a new bone formation of the external auditory canal. It is particularly associated with cold water exposition, but also with low environmental temperatures, wind, trauma, and repetitive infections. Its prevalence has been scarcely studied in past human populations from Southern Patagonia. The aim of this work was to study the prevalence of EAE and its possible relationship t...

Un patrimonio particular: la importancia de las colecciones osteológicas identi...

Uno de los pilares de los estudios bioantropológicos son las colecciones osteológicas identificadas. Este trabajo tiene como objetivo describir este patrimonio y mostrar su importancia. Desde el siglo xix, varios países han reunido conjuntos de cráneos y esqueletos de personas de las cuales se conocen algunos datos biográficos; entre otros, qué edad tenían al morir y su sexo. Actualmente existen cerca de cincue...

A particular heritage: The importance of identified osteological collections

Contribution of paleopathology to the knowledge of the origin and spread of tub...

O acesso à informação nos arquivos pessoais: o caso do arquivo de Marie-Louise ...

Marie – Louise Bastin (MLB) - Etterbeek, 1918; Porto, 2000 –, historiadora de arte e investigadora, pioneira no estudo, divulgação e preservação da História e Cultura Cokwe (Angola), foi autora de uma das mais importantes obras sobre Arte e Cultura Africanas – “Art décoratif Tshokwe” (1961). Em 1995, com a doação do seu acervo ao Museu e Laboratório Antropológico/Departamento de Antropologia da Universidade de ...