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generally multiple. Therefore the most probable seems to be an intercranial area-narrowing process. The alterations (atrophy of the bone, widened and deepened sulci vasorum) remind one of those cases where the intercranial tumour slowly progrediates. The quickly increasing tumour would have caused death even before perforation. According to Gushing, Dandy, Olivecrona and others in the case of meningioma hyperostosis can originate in the vicinity. Scholz explains this as following: on increase of pressure hyperaemia comes into being by mediation of the abundant vessel connection between the dura and the diploe. Although in the case of meningioma in consequence of tissue pressure the diploe is 4

<état-criblé"-like, that is sieve-like porous areas can come into being (

Scholz

, Lindgren) yet we must remember Moodie's, Annot's and Courville's experiences that a great part of thus described bone-thickness is caused in paleopathological cases by meningioma. Bernstein states, that hyperostosis connected to the meningioma is characterized by periostal formation of osteophytes. In our case because of postmortal changes the peristal origin os osteophytea could neither be proved nor excluded by histological and radiological examinations. According to all these in our case it seems right to presume the intercranial tumour and because of the environmental bone hypertrophy, the possibility of mengioma. More than this cannot be proved by paleopathological examination. Fig. 7. Albers-Schönberg's oseoporosis. Gerényes (No. 323-Go) 5 Orvostörténeti Közlemények