Provider: Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic

TY  - JOUR
JO  - Anthropologie (Brno)
TI  - A Congenital Sternum Anomaly from a Late Roman burial from Mallorca, Spain
AU  - Fiorin E
AU  - Isidro A
AU  - Ubelaker D H
AU  - Malgosa A

Y1  - 2016
VL  - 54
IS  - 3
PB  - Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic
SN  - 0323-1119
SP  - 285
EP  - 290
KW  - Sternum G Congenital anomalies G Developmental defect G Late Roman G Spain
N2  - 
N2  - A curious case of a congenital non fusion of the caudal portion of the sternum was found in the skeletal
remains of a juvenile male recovered from a Late Roman burial from the Necropolis of Pollentia, Mallorca, Spain.
No other significant changes in the skeleton or pathological disorders were observed and potentially health problems,
due to this anomaly, can not be determined. This kind of congenital defect is unusual and there are a few cases reported
in paleopathological literature. Despite the fact that the sternum is one of the bones of the body with a wider variety
of congenital variants, generally the described cases focus on the most frequent anomalies, such as pectus excavatum or sternal aperture, whereas the rarest variations, such as sternal bifid/cleft or failure of fusion of the caudal portion are not reported.
ER  -