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work_u3335tn4arejjafzahtplfjxcm	Raffaella Santi	The antiquity of hydrocephalus: the first full palaeo-neuropathological description	2018	8	.pdf	application/pdf	4374	385	53	The Pathology Museum of the University of Florence houses a rich collection of anatomical specimens and over a hundred We present a historical case of severe hydrocephalus backed by modern-day anthropological, radiological and molecular analyses conducted on the skeleton of an 18-month-old male infant deceased in 1831. Physiopathologically, abnormal amount of CSF accumulating in the ventricles of the brain may cause increased intracranial pressure with progressive enlargement of the head and chapter on neurosurgical diseases, he described infantile hydrocephalus as caused by mechanical compression. Here, we describe an extraordinary case of severe hydrocephalus in an 18-month-old child who died in 1831. a diagnostic flowchart which included descriptions of the anatomical specimen and wax model, an outline of the clinical history, anthropometric methods, radiological findings and molecular testing. This case of hydrocephalus is detailed in the museum catalogue alongside the description of the wax model (Fig. 1). hydrocephalus (Luigi Calamai, 1831) housed at the Pathology Museum	./cache/work_u3335tn4arejjafzahtplfjxcm.pdf	./txt/work_u3335tn4arejjafzahtplfjxcm.txt