A skeletal case of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy from the Canary Islands dating from 1000 BP.

摘要: A left tibia, the distal right and proximal four fifths of ulna radius, probably belonging to an adult prehispanic man (antiquity ≈1000 years BP) were found among commingled bone remains in a collective burial cave island El Hierro, Canary Archipelago. All bones show intense periosteal formation, encrusting preserved cortical diaphyses. Differential diagnosis include melorheostosis, syphilis, leprosy, although most likely is hypertrophic osteoarthropathy, which usually associated with lung neoplasm or non-malignant diseases leading chronic hypoxemia. The marked proliferation, possibly due condition, suggests that underlying illness was one.