“The quiet necrosis”

Background osteochondritis dissecans (OCD) is an ancient disease with few well-described cases in paleopathological records. Here, we report a very rare case of OCD on both lateral femoral condyles and on the lateral condyle of the right tibia in an early medieval human skeleton. Methods macroscopic examination of the bone vestiges of a young male unearthed from a 6th–8th Lombard cemetery in the northeast Italy was perform. Results We observed a...