A Lesion on the “King of Kings”: Neurofibromas in the Parthian Empire’s Arsacid Dynasty

Multiple kings of the Arsacid Dynasty of the ancient Parthian Empire are depicted on their coinage with a recurrent facial lesion, one that is found across multiple generations. Multiple theories have attempted to explain this phenomenon, from basal cell carcinoma to hereditary trichoepithelioma. In...

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Autores principales: Turner, Matthew D, Sunday, Adam
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10614084/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37908901
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.46248
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description Multiple kings of the Arsacid Dynasty of the ancient Parthian Empire are depicted on their coinage with a recurrent facial lesion, one that is found across multiple generations. Multiple theories have attempted to explain this phenomenon, from basal cell carcinoma to hereditary trichoepithelioma. In this paper, we suggest that these lesions are possibly a representation of the neurofibromas found in Neurofibromatosis 1, an autosomal dominant disease process.
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spelling pubmed-106140842023-10-31 A Lesion on the “King of Kings”: Neurofibromas in the Parthian Empire’s Arsacid Dynasty Turner, Matthew D Sunday, Adam Cureus Other Multiple kings of the Arsacid Dynasty of the ancient Parthian Empire are depicted on their coinage with a recurrent facial lesion, one that is found across multiple generations. Multiple theories have attempted to explain this phenomenon, from basal cell carcinoma to hereditary trichoepithelioma. In this paper, we suggest that these lesions are possibly a representation of the neurofibromas found in Neurofibromatosis 1, an autosomal dominant disease process. Cureus 2023-09-30 /pmc/articles/PMC10614084/ /pubmed/37908901 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.46248 Text en Copyright © 2023, Turner et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10614084/
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