In what ways can human skeletal remains be used to understand health and disease from the past?

Postgraduate Medical Journal

Volumn 83, Issue 978, 2007, Pages 281-284

  Metcalfe, Neil H ^a  

^a NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOPSY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; LABORATORY TEST; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MICROSCOPY; PALEOPATHOLOGY; REVIEW; SKELETON;

AUTOPSY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; LABORATORY TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; PALEOPATHOLOGY;

EID: 34247490105     PISSN: 00325473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.2006.051813     Document Type: Review

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