title: [A new approach to the identification and the interpretation of the various forms of cribra orbitalia].
abstract: The so-called cribra orbitalia lesion was described for the first time in 1885 by H. Welcker. Since then the cribriform tectum of the orbit has provoked the most varied pathogenic interpretations. However for 40 years the whole paleopathologist community agreed to recognize that anaemia and generally deficiency in iron, food or infections were the causes of medullary hyperplasia which would be the alone responsible for the damage. Through new macroscopic explorations and new understanding of the genesis of the lesion, the author does not admit the principle of an universal hyperplasia but he suggests to distinguish three causes ofcribra orbitalia: the anatomic variations, the osteoperiostitis, the cortical erosion.
authors.forename: Pierre L
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Thillaud
mesh_terms: D000313:Adrenal Medulla / Q000473:pathology; D018798:Anemia, Iron-Deficiency / Q000266:history* / Q000473:pathology; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049690:History, Ancient; D006801:Humans; D006965:Hyperplasia / Q000266:history / Q000473:pathology; D009915:Orbit / Q000473:pathology*; D010164:Paleopathology / Q000266:history* / Q000379:methods