TONINA E.

Background: For the followers of criminal anthropology, during the second half of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, the association "anatomical anomaly – psyche anomaly" represented an immediate diagnostic tool to identify mental illness and consequently the tendency to become a criminal. In this article, we analyse a clinical...

Some pathological features may be underestimate in clinical literature, especially the asymptomatic ones. This is the case of multiple osteomas, benign and primary bone tumors. As a matter of fact, nowadays their incidence is 2-3% of bone tumour cases. Conversely, their prevalence in the archaeological sample seems to be greater. We describe...

This paper presents a probable case of subligamentous tuberculous spondylitis (STBS), a rare form of extrapulmonary tuberculosis, diagnosed in the skeleton of a middle-aged male discovered in the ossuary of the Franciscan crypt of the St. Anthony and St. Eusebius church, which lies in north-western Italy. The skeleton can be dated back between...