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Did Antonio Vallisneri (1661–1730) really describe frontal sinus osteoma? Unexpected insights for paleo-neuroparasitology

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Abstract

It has been believed for a long time that the Paduan scholar Antonio Vallisneri (1661–1730) described the second historical case of the frontal sinus osteoma in 1733. By historico-medically reexamining this case, we conclude that the brain concretions he described were not a case of frontal sinus osteoma, while they appear to have been pathological outcomes of neurocysticercosis, whose larval stages would only be described by Johann Goeze (1731–1793) later, in 1784. Thus, this case becomes relevant for the history of neuroparasitology.

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  1. Francesco M. Galassi and Elena Varotto contributed equally to this work.

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  1. College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Department of Archaeology, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, 5001, Australia

    Francesco M. Galassi

  2. Institute of Evolutionary Medicine, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057, Zurich, Switzerland

    Francesco M. Galassi

  3. Department of Translational Research and New Technologies in Medicine and Surgery, Division of Paleopathology, Via Roma 57, 56126, Pisa, Italy

    Elena Varotto

  4. Unit of Medical Humanities, Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University of Padua Medical School, via A. Gabelli 61, 35121, Padua, Italy

    Alberto Zanatta & Fabio Zampieri

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Galassi, F.M., Varotto, E., Zanatta, A. et al. Did Antonio Vallisneri (1661–1730) really describe frontal sinus osteoma? Unexpected insights for paleo-neuroparasitology. Neurol Sci 39, 1275–1277 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10072-018-3312-7

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