POROTIC HYPEROSTOSIS AS A MANIFESTATION OF IRON DEFICIENCY?
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Porotic hyperostosis and the Gelligaer skull.
The differential diagnosis of the bony lesions known as porotic hyperostosis found on a Bronze Age child's skull is discussed. Keith and Shattock gave an opinion in 1923 that the cause was rickets. A firm conclusion is not reached in this paper, but it is suggested that it was more likely to have been an iron-deficiency anaemia.
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عنوان ژورنال: Chungará (Arica)
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0717-7356
DOI: 10.4067/s0717-73562000000100014