Prostate metastatic bone cancer in an Egyptian Ptolemaic mummy, a proposed radiological diagnosis

International Journal of Paleopathology

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 98-103

  Prates, Carlos ^a   Sousa, Sandra ^a   Oliveira, Carlos ^a   Ikram, Salima ^b  

^a IMI Imagens Médicas Integradas ^*  (Portugal)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Bone metastasis in antiquity; Cancer in antiquity; Egyptian mummies; Mummies CT evaluation; Prostate cancer metastasis

Indexed keywords

EID: 82655172360     PISSN: 18799817     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpp.2011.09.002     Document Type: Article

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