Provider: Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic TY - JOUR JO - Anthropologie (Brno) TI - A Case of Severe Metastatic Carcinoma in a Late Medieval Calva from Petrov, Brno (Czech Republic) AU - Horáčková L AU - Benešová L AU - Strouhal E AU - Vyhnánek L AU - Němečková A Y1 - 1997 VL - 35 IS - 1 PB - Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic SN - 0323-1119 SP - 57 EP - 64 KW - Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul KW - Brno, Moravia KW - Late Middle Ages KW - Extensive diffuse osteolytic metastases KW - Carcinoma of soft tissue N2 - N2 - An extensive multiple osteolytic process permeating the bones of an isolated calva, discovered in a layer of rubbish found during excavations in the interior of the Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul in Brno, the capital city of Moravia, has been examined macroscopically, radiographically, by CT, histologically and by SEM. All these procedures disclosed a process compatible with a lytic metastatic carcinoma of unusual extent, which suggests that the afflicted old male must have been cared for by his relatives and others. ER -