Un caso de hidrocefalia en un individuo de la época colonial proveniente de Tlaxcala, México

Abstract

In this investigation one occurs to know the case a recovered infantile individual in presbiterio of exconvento franciscano of Santa María Texcalac, of century XVI, in Apizaco (Tlaxcala, which shows an alteration in its craneal morphology, mainly in the weathers, doing to notice that it is a nonintentional deformation, probably of a congenital pathology like, which appears when being born and is caused by a complex interaction of genetic and exogenous factors. This abnormality leaves track in the bone and is important to know it since its incidence is of approximately one of each 1 000 people.