Paleopathology Case 94

Slide showing typical lesions seen on the skin of a leg from a mummy of the Valley of Camarones (Northern Chile) about 500 before present. In the same archeological excavation numerous mummies with the same type of lesions were seen on the limbs and the thorax.

Submitted by: Dr. Marvin J. Allison, Medical College of Virginia Campus, Richmond, Virginia, USA.

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Case 94

Paleopathology Research


Updated March 20, 2006