The maid of the Bridal Room by Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506) shows evidence of hypopituitary dwarfism and neurofibromatosis type-1

J Neurol Sci. 2017 Sep 15:380:148-150. doi: 10.1016/j.jns.2017.07.029. Epub 2017 Jul 22.

¹ Department of Public Health and Pediatric Sciences, Legal Medicine Section, University of Turin, Italy; Warwick Medical School, Microbiology and Infection Division, University of Warwick, United Kingdom; UMR 7268, Laboratoire d'Anthropologie bio-culturelle, Droit, Etique & Santé (Adés), Faculté de Médecine de Marseille, France. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Department of Medicine, "San Giovanni di Dio" Hospital, Gorizia, Italy.
³ Section of Medical and Forensic Anthropology (UVSQ & Paris-Descartes University EA 4569), Montigny-Le-Bretonneux, France; CASH & IPES, Nanterre, France.
⁴ New Mexico Health Enhancement and Marathon Clinics Research Foundation, 361 Big Horn Ridge Dr. NE, Albuquerque, NM, USA; New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, 1801 Mountain Road NW. Albuquerque, NM, USA.

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Keywords: Dwarfism.; Mantegna; Neurocutaneous genetic disorder; The “Bridal Room”.

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