A recent paper by Walker et al. (2009) states that iron-deficiency anaemia can no longer be regarded as being a cause of porotic hyperostosis (PH) or cribra orbitalia (CO). It is argued here that this conclusion is not supported by the current literature on iron-deficiency anaemia and associated haematopoietic responses or consequences to this condition. Indeed, iron-deficiency anaemia is still a plausible candidate in any differential diagnosis of lesions identified as PH and/or CO. © 2010 The Anthropological Society of Nippon.
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Oxenham, M. F., & Cavill, I. (2011). Porotic hyperostosis and cribra orbitalia: The erythropoietic response to iron-deficiency anaemia. Anthropological Science, 118(3), 199–200. https://doi.org/10.1537/ase.100302
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