Health effects of European colonization: An investigation of skeletal remains from 19th to early 20th century migrant settlers in South Australia.

The British colony of South Australia, established in 1836, offered a fresh start to migrants hoping for a better life. A cohort of settlers buried in a section of St Mary's Anglican Church Cemetery (1847-1927) allocated for government funded burials was investigated to determine their health, with a focus on skeletal manifestations associated with metabolic deficiencies. Findings of St Mary's sample were compared with those published for contemporary skeletal samples from two British cemeteries, St Martin's, Birmingham, and St Peter's, Wolverhampton, to explore similarities and differences.

Scar endometriosis, a tricky diagnosis. A case series report and a short review of the literature.

Backround: Abdominal wall endometrioma is a rare condition, which usually develops in surgical scar of a Cesarean section (C-section) or of a hysterectomy. Scar endometriosis is a misdiagnosed condition in general surgery, since it mimics other surgical conditions. Diagnosis is mainly based upon a high index of suspicion.

Clinical characteristics and management of a Greek female patient cohort with breast conserving treatment.

Purpose: The purpose of this retrospective single-center study was to examine histopathological characteristics and treatment options in a cohort of Greek female patients treated with breast conserving surgery (BCS) and to evaluate potential predictive factors of breast cancer (BC) local recurrence.

Methods: The clinic's medical records from 1995 up to the end of July 2016 were scanned in order to identify female patients treated with BCS. We recognized 1175 patients who underwent BCS, representing 35.

Presence of dental signs of congenital syphilis in pre-modern specimens.

Objective: Tooth morphology can vary due to genetic factors, infectious diseases and other environmental stresses. Congenital syphilis is known to interrupt tooth formation i.e.

Diagnosing congenital syphilis using Hutchinson's method: Differentiating between syphilitic, mercurial, and syphilitic-mercurial dental defects.

Objectives: This study focuses on the dental abnormalities observed by Sir Jonathan Hutchinson, Henry Moon and Alfred Fournier in patients with congenital syphilis and in those treated with mercury, in order to define alterations in dental morphology attributable to each of these causes. These definitions are applied to reported paleopathological cases, exploring various etiologies behind the defects, in order to aid in the diagnosis of congenital syphilis.

Methods: Original works were examined for descriptions of dental abnormalities in congenital syphilis and in mercurial treatments.