Diagnostic value of micro-CT in comparison with histology in the qualitative assessment of historical human skull bone pathologies

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 133, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1099-1111

  Ruhli F J ^a   Kuhn, G ^a   Evison, R ^b   Muller R ^b   Schultz, Michael ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hyperostosis frontalis interna; Hyperparathyroidism; Osteomyelitis; Paleopathology; Syphilis

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN FIBER;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HISTORY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPEROSTOSIS; HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MORPHOLOGY; OSTEOMYELITIS; PALEOPATHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SKULL; SKULL DISEASE; SURFACE PROPERTY; SYPHILIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TISSUE SLICE;

BONE DISEASES; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; HYPEROSTOSIS FRONTALIS INTERNA; HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICROSCOPY, POLARIZATION; MYELOFIBROSIS; OSTEOMYELITIS; SKULL; SYPHILIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34547457124     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.20611     Document Type: Article

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