Porotic hyperostosis and the Gelligaer skull.
The differential diagnosis of the bony lesions known as porotic hyperostosis found on a Bronze Age child's skull is discussed. Keith and Shattock gave an opinion in 1923 that the cause was rickets. A firm conclusion is not reached in this paper, but it is suggested that it was more likely to have been an iron-deficiency anaemia.
D000747:Anemia, Hypochromic / Q000150:complications; D001847:Bone Diseases / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D010161:Paleodontology; D010164:Paleopathology; D012279:Rickets / Q000150:complications; D012886:Skull / Q000473:pathology