Chronic maxillary sinusitis in palaeopathology: A review of methods.

Objective: This study reviews the palaeopathological literature discussing maxillary sinusitis to examine current trends and issues within the study of this condition, and to make recommendations for future research in this area.

Materials: Seventy-five studies were identified through a literature search of digital and physical sources.

Methods: Information regarding study metadata, the populations investigated, sinusitis diagnostic criteria, and sinusitis prevalence was examined.

Honeycomb sterna: an unusual case of a developmental abnormality in the sternum.

This report details an unusual case of a human sternal developmental abnormality of an anatomical specimen part of the skeletal collection curated by University College London, Anthropology Department skeletal collection. This rarely reported developmental abnormality is caused by the non-fusion of lateral ossification centres in the sternebrae, resulting in the mesosternum having a honeycomb-like appearance. Sternal defects are typically underreported in the clinical literature as many cases being asymptomatic that they are typically diagnosed incidentally, as such there is a dearth in our current understanding of the development and anatomical variants of the sternum.

Hypertrophic osteoarthropathy in an adult macaque.

Objective: To evaluate through differential diagnosis whether hypertrophic osteoarthropathy was present on an adult macaque skeleton.

Materials: Skeletal remains of a well-preserved adult macaque (Macaca) of unknown species curated by the archaeology department at University College London.

Methods: Macroscopic and radiographic evaluation of pathological lesions.