A rare case of calvarial tuberculosis from the Avar Age (8th century CE) cemetery of Kaba–Bitózug (Hajdú-Bihar county, Hungary) – Pathogenesis and differential diagnostic aspects - 05/08/22
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The aim of our paper is to present and discuss in detail the bony changes indicative of tuberculosis (TB) that were identified in a skeleton (KB67), unearthed from grave 67 of the 8th-century-CE cemetery of Kaba–Bitózug (Hungary). Furthermore, to provide the differential diagnoses of the observed alterations, with special attention to the cranial osteolytic lesions. During the macro- and micromorphological examinations of KB67, the skull revealed three small, well-circumscribed, punched-out osteolytic lesions accompanied by endocranial granular impressions, abnormal blood vessel impressions, periosteal appositions, and cortical erosion. The postcranial skeleton exhibited osteolytic lesions, cortical remodelling and erosion, and signs of hypervascularisation in the spine. Based on the differential diagnosis of the cranial osteolytic lesions and their co-occurrence with endocranial and vertebral bony changes indicative of TB, they most likely resulted from tuberculous involvement of the frontal and left parietal bones. The morphologically established diagnosis was confirmed by a PCR analysis that provided evidence for the presence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA in KB67. KB67, the first reported archaeological case with calvarial TB from the present-day territory of Hungary, gives us a unique insight into the occurrence of a rare manifestation of TB in the Avar Age of the Great Plain.
Le texte complet de cet article est disponible en PDF.Keywords : Calvarial tuberculosis, Osteoarchaeological material, Macromorphological examination, Micromorphological investigations, Palaeomicrobiological analyses, Differential diagnosis
Abbreviations : tuberculosis, osteoarticular tuberculosis, calvarial tuberculosis, tuberculous meningitis, ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography, polymerase chain reaction, microcomputed tomography, scanning electron microscopy, abnormal blood vessel impressions, periosteal appositions, granular impressions, multiple myeloma, Langerhans cell histiocytosis
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