These studies revealed that the void's physical characteristics — the type and location of missing bone — were consistent with a fibrous
dysplastic neoplasm, a tumor caused by a bone growth disorder, the scientists report online today in PLOS ONE.
Emma Young dates the oldest known tumour in the human ancestral line — a fibrous
dysplastic neoplasm in a Neanderthal...
From a u-CT scan and an X-ray, researchers identified a fibrous
dysplastic neoplasm — today, the most common form of benign bone tumor in humans — located on a Neandertal left rib fragment that measured 30 mm (4 1/2 inches) long.