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Študijné zvesti
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2020
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vol. 67
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issue 1
129 - 139
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The present study describes human skeletal remains of an individual from the medieval population of Selenec (Nitra district). Macroscopic analysis revealed extensive symmetrical inflammatory changes corresponding with the manifestations of hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy (HPO). The case from Slovakia therefore represents a welcome addition to the still very limited list of cases of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy observed in human archaeological remains. Taking into account similar cases reported in the world, diagnostic criteria, observed pathological changes, as well as strong association of HPO with tuberculosis (especially with its severe untreated form) and the young age of the individual from Selenec, it is likely that pulmonary tuberculosis was the primary cause of HPO recorded in the man.
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The paper presents results of the dental state analysis in non-adult and adult individuals from the Early Bronze Age cemetery in Pata (site Diely), southwestern Slovakia. The aim of the study was to evaluate the prevalence of dental caries and periapical inflammatory processes and compare it with the populations living in the territory of Slovakia during the Bronze and Early Middle Ages. Non-adults consisted of individuals both with deciduous and mixed dentition. The children with deciduous dentition had all teeth intact. In group of non-adults with mixed dentition, four individuals had deciduous teeth affected by dental caries (F-CE = 12.5 %, I-CE = 5.7 %). In adults, the analysis was carried out in 134 individuals (54 males, 69 females and 11 individuals of undetermined sex). The caries frequency index (F-CE) reached 53.7 %. The caries intensity (I-CE), consisting of the frequency of carious teeth % C = 5.2 %) and ante-mortem tooth loss % E = 8.1 %), reached 13.3 %. Both the F-CE and I-CE have positively growing tendency with increasing age. No significant intersexual differences in the caries frequency and the caries intensity were found. An inflammatory periapical lesion was examined only in adults. In 28 (20.9 %) affected individuals, 62 (3.1 %) alveoli were changed by the inflammation. The abscess/osteomyelitis was the most frequent (61.3 %), followed by periapical granuloma (24.2 %) and radicular cysts (14.5 %). The prevalence of caries among Early Bronze Age population groups from Pata, Rumanová, and Melčice was similar, while in Early Bronze Age Branč and early medieval cemeteries their prevalence was significantly higher. We assume that the observed differences are related to a different lifestyle, especially dietary habits.
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