Spectrometric analysis and scanning electronic microscopy of two pleural plaques from mediaeval Portuguese period.
| Autor: | Fernandes T; Departamento de Biologia, Escola de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade de Évora, 7002-554, Portugal; Centro de Investigação em Antropologia e Saúde (CIAS), Universidade de Coimbra, Apartado 3046, 3001-401 Coimbra, Portugal. Electronic address: tmf@uevora.pt., Granja R; Departamento de Biologia, Escola de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade de Évora, 7002-554, Portugal., Thillaud PL; École des Hautes Étude, Section des Sciences Historiques et Philologiques, La Sorbonne, Paris, France. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Revista portuguesa de pneumologia [Rev Port Pneumol] 2014 Sep-Oct; Vol. 20 (5), pp. 260-3. Date of Electronic Publication: 2014 Jun 21. |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.rppneu.2014.01.006 |
| Abstrakt: | During an archaeological excavation at a mediaeval monastery (Flor da Rosa, Crato, Portugal), a skeleton of a adult woman was found with two calcifications in the thoracic cage. The location and the macroscopic analysis of the calcifications allowed them to be assigned as pleural plaques. Spectrometric analysis and scanning electronic microscopy enabled to establish that it originated with an infectious process. These results associated with the lesions found in the ribs and vertebrae strongly suggest tuberculosis as the cause of these pleural plaques. (Copyright © 2013 Sociedade Portuguesa de Pneumologia. Published by Elsevier España. All rights reserved.) |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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