The youngest meningioma? A historic Maya adolescent from Tipu, Belize

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ID12371343
AutoresMarie Elaine Danforth (0000-0003-1678-1078, School of Social Science and Global Studies University of Southern Mississippi Hattiesburg MS, autor correspondente), Kelly Kramer (School of Social Science and Global Studies University of Southern Mississippi Hattiesburg MS), Della Collins Cook (0000-0002-7637-9147, Department of Anthropology Indiana University Bloomington IN), Mark Nathan Cohen (State University of New York)
Ano2019
Volume29
Fascículo6
Páginas1042-1050
Data de publicação2019-08-28
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInternational Journal of Osteoarchaeology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1047-482X • E-ISSN: 1099-1212
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/oa.2817
OpenAlexW2970300365
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas41

Meningiomas are the most common tumours of the central nervous system. However, few well‐accepted cases have been reported in the palaeopathological literature and usually only when hyperostosis co‐occurs. We present a hyperostotic cranial lesion in an adolescent from the early historic population of Tipu in west central Belize. It fits most clinical and epidemiological patterns of meningeal expression in modern children, and differential diagnosis finds other possible conditions, including dietary deficiencies and genetic anaemias, unlikely. The often subtle characteristics of meningiomas, which can be both osteolytic and osteoblastic, need to be described in detail to differentiate them from other conditions, especially porotic hyperostosis. The Tipu case is the only nonadult example to correspond with published clinical and palaeopathological cases of the tumour

Central nervous system · Hyperostosis · Lesion · Meningioma · Paleopathology · Pathology · Population · Skull · Bone Tumor Diagnosis and Treatments · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies · Medicine · Meningioma and schwannoma management · Anatomy · Epidemiology · Internal Medicine