title: Cribra orbitalia in the aborigines of Hawaii and Australia.
abstract: Cranii of 53 Hawaiian aboriginal infants and children, and 45 from Austrailian aboriginal children were inspected. Cribra orbitalia was present in 22.8% of the former and 26.6% of the latter; osteoporotic pitting (symmetrical osteoporosis; porotic hyperostosis) was also present in the latter. The frequency compares favorably with that found in pre-Columbian North American Pueblo Indians, 24.7%. It is associated with a widespread skeletal involvement suggestive of an active bone marrow. The findings support the concept that cribra orbitalia is related to symmetrical osteoporosis and that it may be associated with a blood disorder.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D001315:Australia; D006254:Hawaii; D049690:History, Ancient; D007198:Indians, North American; D044468:Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander; D009777:Occipital Bone / Q000473:pathology; D009915:Orbit / Q000473:pathology; D010024:Osteoporosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000266:history; D010164:Paleopathology; D044465:White People; D000095283:Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples