Elena Varotto
School of Biomedicine
Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
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Journals
Year Citation 2023 Iraci Sareri, D., Varotto, E., & Ingaliso, L. (2023). Reflections on the History of Syphilis. International Journal of Anthropology, 38(1-2), 35-32.
2023 Habicht, M. E., Varotto, E., Vaccarezza, M., Cossarizza, A., & Galassi, F. M. (2023). Kaspar Hauser, the Child of Europe: Are smallpox vaccination scars the clue to a 2-century-old mystery?. Clinics in Dermatology, S0738-081X(23)00050-0.
2023 Galassi, F. M., & Varotto, E. (2023). The importance of case studies in the study of ancient diseases and the fight against biomedical fake news: a set of cases to make a point. Human Evolution, 38(1-2), 17-27.
2023 Galassi, F. M., Lippi, D., Zucchini, E., Bianucci, R., & Varotto, E. (2023). Palaeodermatological exposé on the historical case of Ferdinando II de’ Medici (AD 1610–1670). Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology.
2023 Lippi, D., Varotto, E., Boccalini, S., Bechini, A., Donell, S. T., & Galassi, F. M. (2023). FACE MASKS TO PREVENT INFECTIOUS DISEASES: AN HISTORICO-ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE IN THE LIGHT OF THE RECENT PANDEMIC. Anthropologie (Czech Republic), 61(2), 211-215.
2023 Galassi, F. M., Giacomini, F., & Varotto, E. (2023). Palaeodermatological aspects of Duke Federico da Montefeltro's case: A multidisciplinary assessment. Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology, 3 pages.
2023 Melintenda, S., Varotto, E., Pappalardo, E., Guzzardi, L., Papa, V., Palermo, D., & Galassi, F. M. (2023). Spina Bifida Sacralis Occulta from Ancient Greek Sicily (Pozzanghera Necropolis, Leontinoi, 6<sup>th</sup>–4<sup>th</sup> Century BC): Anatomical, Anthropological and Ethnomedical Considerations on the Insular Presentation of this Congenital Anomaly. Anthropological Review, 86(2), 13-25.
2023 Ricci, P., Varotto, E., Galassi, F. M., Bertozzi, G., & Vanin, S. (2023). Erratum to “Sessa et al. First report of Heleomyzidae (Diptera) recovered from the inner cavity of an intact human femur” [J Forensic Leg Med. (2019) 66 4–7, (S1752928X18306711), (10.1016/j.jflm.2019.05.021)]. Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, 97, 102545.
2023 Galassi, F. M., Cossarizza, A., & Varotto, E. (2023). Superior vena cava syndrome and gynecomastia in antiquity: Paleodermatologic considerations on aging in the past. Clinics in Dermatology, S0738-081X(23)00048-2.
2023 Galassi, F. M., Sineo, L., Papa, V., & Varotto, E. (2023). Monkeypox between dermatology and anthropology: A model for evolutionary medicine. Clinics in Dermatology, S0738-081X(23)00045-7.
Scopus22023 Galassi, F. M., Habicht, M. E., & Varotto, E. (2023). The predictive power of palaeopathology. The Lancet Microbe, 4(6), e391.
2023 Varotto, E., Cafarelli, F. P., Maglietta, F., Moraes, C., Ricci, P., & Galassi, F. M. (2023). Morpho-radiological and brain endocast analysis in the study of Hyperostosis Frontalis Interna (HFI): A combined approach. PLoS ONE, 18(3 March), 12 pages.
2023 Galassi, F. M., Varotto, E., & Papa, V. (2023). A further methodologic comment on Recalcati et al's response on the “skull with petrified ears” on the necessity of evidence-based anthropologic studies. Clinics in Dermatology, S0738-081X(23)00046-9.
2023 Galassi, F. M., & Varotto, E. (2023). Osteoporosis and vertebral trabecular bone health: an historico-anthropological perspective. Anthropological Review, 86(1), 17-22.
2022 Orsini, D., Varotto, E., Galassi, F. M., & Martini, M. (2022). THE LAST ITALIAN PETRIFIER, FRANCESCO SPIRITO (1885–1962), AND HIS METHOD OF PRESERVATION OF ANATOMICAL SPECIMENS. Anthropologie (Czech Republic), 60(3), 537-542.
2022 Galassi, F. M., Lngaliso, L., Vittori, V., Habichtl, M. E., Cossarizza, A., & Varotto, E. (2022). LORD BYRON (1788-1824) AS THE PRECURSOR OF CELEBRITIES ENDORSING VACCINE HESITANCY: A CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL LESSON FOR COVID-19 IMMUNISATION STRATEGIES. Anthropologie (Czech Republic), 60(1), 187-190.
2022 Lippi, D., Bianucci, R., Donell, S., Varotto, E., & Galassi, F. M. (2022). Dante Alighieri’s Mentions of the Skin: Assessing the Great Poet’s Dermatological Knowledge. Medicina Nei Secoli, 34(2), 167-174.
2022 Cafici, G., Varotto, E., & Galassi, F. M. (2022). Rediscovering Egyptian mummies in Castello Ursino, Museo Civico of Catania, Sicily. Human Evolution, 37(3-4), 181-188.
2022 Habicht, M. E., Varotto, E., Giannino, R., Sillaro Cola, A., & Galassi, F. M. (2022). Karl i of Habsburg-Lothringen (1887-1922) and Influenza: A note on the centenary of the emperor's demise. Human Evolution, 37(3-4), 189-198.
2022 Herrerín, J., Dorado, E., Galassi, F. M., Varotto, E., & Solà, R. D. (2022). Klippel-Feil Syndrome: morphological findings in a 19<sup>th</sup>-century musealized skull from Viana del Bollo (Orense, Spain). Anthropological Review, 85(2), 63-78.
Scopus12022 Lippi, D., Varotto, E., Donell, S., & Galassi, F. M. (2022). Dino Buzzati’s 50<sup>th</sup> death anniversary: an appraisal of medicine and infectivology’s influence on his literary production. Acta Biomedica, 93(5), e2022261.
2022 Aquila, I., Sacco, M. A., Cordasco, F., Scalise, C., Galassi, F. M., Varotto, E., . . . Ricci, P. (2022). The Role of Forensic Investigation in an Unusual Case of Patricide by a Schizophrenic Woman Involving Dismemberment of a Decomposed Body. Diagnostics, 12(7), 12 pages.
2022 Galassi, F. M., Pate, F. D., You, W., Gurr, A., Lucas, T., Antunes-Ferreira, N., . . . Habicht, M. E. (2022). Pandemic realism as the indispensable political precondition for global disease eradication. Public Health, 212, 55-57.
Scopus12022 Galassi, F. M., Papa, V., Lambusta, L., Vaccarezza, M., & Varotto, E. (2022). Cyclopes and giants: ancient mythological figures through an anatomical and palæopathological lens. Human Evolution, 37(1-2), 9-15.
2022 Habicht, M. E., Varotto, E., Galassi, F. M., & Pate, F. D. (2022). The elusive disease of Pharaoh Siptah (19th dynasty, ca. 1200 BC): old problems and future perspectives. Neurological Sciences, 43(1), 747-748.
Scopus1 WoS1 Europe PMC12022 Lippi, D., Varotto, E., Boccalini, S., Bechini, A., & Galassi, F. M. (2022). In Search of a Lost Father: Adrien Proust (1834–1903), An Almost Forgotten Public Health Pioneer. Vaccines, 10(5), 6 pages.
Scopus2 Europe PMC12022 Galassi, F. M., Varotto, E., Nerlich, A., & Bianucci, R. (2022). Mary Shelley’s migraines and fatal stroke: some observations on their primary cause. Acta Biomedica, 93(1), e2022078.
2022 Habicht, M. E., Varotto, E., & Galassi, F. M. (2022). The Swiss Canton of Thurgau – not the Kingdom of Bavaria—was the first state to introduce compulsory vaccination against smallpox. Public Health, 205, e16-e17.
Scopus12022 Nerlich, A. G., Appenzeller, O., Perciaccante, A., Galassi, F. M., Varotto, E., & Bianucci, R. (2022). Unilateral facial asymmetry in a 40 BCE Roman carved head. Journal of Craniofacial Surgery, 33(2), 372-374.
2022 Papa, V., Varotto, E., Galli, M., Vaccarezza, M., & Galassi, F. M. (2022). One year of anatomy teaching and learning in the outbreak: Has the Covid-19 pandemic marked the end of a century-old practice? A systematic review. Anatomical Sciences Education, 15(2), 261-280.
Scopus25 WoS27 Europe PMC112022 Galassi, F. M., Torrisi, E., & Varotto, E. (2022). Final notes on: Response to Galassi et al. concerning the paper by Turgut et al. “Three mythic giants for common fœtal malformation called ‘cyclopia’: Polyphemus, Tepegöz and Grendel”, Child’s Nervous System, DOI 10.1007/s00381‐019–04,207‐y. Child's Nervous System, 38(3), 509-510.
2022 Sacco, M. A., Abenavoli, L., Cordasco, F., Galassi, F. M., Varotto, E., Ricci, P., & Aquila, I. (2022). Sudden death due to fulminant lymphocytic myocarditis with atypical prodromal symptoms. Clinical Case Reports, 10(6).
2022 Habicht, M. E., Varotto, E., & Galassi, F. M. (2022). THE BOY WHO NEVER BECAME PHARAOH? A THEORETICAL STUDY IN IDENTIFICATION. Anthropologie (Czech Republic), 60(3), 531-535.
2022 Varotto, E., Galassi, F. M., Lippi, D., & Bianucci, R. (2022). Depiction of goitre in an Etruscan Genucilia Terracotta plate (late 5th–early 4th BCE). Journal of Endocrinological Investigation, 45(6), 1273-1274.
Scopus12021 Galassi, F. M., Varotto, E., Mussini, C., & Cossarizza, A. (2021). Measles-induced immune amnesia likely recorded in the 18th century. Journal of Clinical Virology, 141, 2 pages.
Scopus1 WoS1 Europe PMC12021 You, W., Galassi, F. M., Varotto, E., & Henneberg, M. (2021). Genghis Khan's death (AD 1227): An unsolvable riddle or simply a pandemic disease?. International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 104, 347-348.
2021 Varotto, E., Aquila, I., & Ricci, P. (2021). Additional paleoradiological considerations on the health of Fujiwara no Kiyohira (AD 1056–1128, Late Heian period). Japanese Journal of Radiology, 39(2), 206-207.
Scopus1 WoS1 Europe PMC12021 Papa, V., Varotto, E., Novak, M., Ascione, A., & Galassi, F. M. (2021). The historical case of Giulio Clovio (Julije Klović, 1498-1578): Anatomo-clinical analysis and differential diagnosis. Acta Medica Mediterranea, 37(6), 3125-3128.
2021 Martini, M., Galassi, F. M., Varotto, E., & Paluan, F. (2021). Michelangelo Buonarroti's Alleged Goiter: Anatomical Fact or Literary Misinterpretation?. Endocrine Practice, 27(12), 1264-1265.
Scopus1 WoS1 Europe PMC12021 Galassi, F. M., Torrisi, E., & Varotto, E. (2021). Comment on Turgut et al.’s Three mythic giants for common fetal malformation called “cyclopia”: Polyphemus, Tepegöz, and Grendel. Child's Nervous System, 37(12), 3665-3666.
Scopus2 WoS12021 Varotto, E., Zurla, L., Galassi, F. M., & Ingoglia, C. (2021). The earliest known Italian case of bilateral non-osseous calcaneonavicular coalition from the mediaeval cemetery of Troina (Enna, Sicily). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 13(9), 11 pages.
Scopus12021 Galassi, F. M., Magro, M. T., Brancato, R., Lubritto, C., Belcastro, M. G., Papa, V., & Varotto, E. (2021). A case of large bregmatic bone from Late Roman Sicily: anthropological analysis and historical aspects. Human Evolution, 36(3), 279-291.
2021 De Carolis, S., Rastelli, E., Papa, V., Lorenzi, R., Varotto, E., & Galassi, F. M. (2021). The Strozzi Sarcophagus of Ravenna: anthropological analysis, morphological and palæopathological observations on the skeletons contained therein. Human Evolution, 36(3), 269-278.
2021 Armocida, E., Galassi, F. M., Gruppioni, G., Zambruno, S., Varotto, E., Traversari, M., . . . Ruggeri, A. (2021). The presumed skull of athalaric, king of the ostrogoths (AD 516-534): Questioning of a century-old attribution and paleopathological study. Anthropologie (Czech Republic), 59(1), 93-96.
2021 Galassi, F. M., Lubritto, C., Magro, M. T., Brancato, R., Tortorici, E., Errani, P., & Varotto, E. (2021). A Key Role for Chronology: Contextualising Ancient Human Remains and Pathologies Spanning Thousands of Years. Environmental Archaeology, 5 pages.
Scopus12021 Galassi, F. M., & Varotto, E. (2021). The alleged shoes of Michelangelo Buonarroti: Anthropometrical considerations. Anthropologie (Czech Republic), 59(1), 97-99.
Scopus22021 Papa, V., Varotto, E., Vaccarezza, M., & Galassi, F. M. (2021). Teaching anatomy through images: The power of anatomical drawings. Anthropologie (Czech Republic), 59(2), 145-153.
Scopus32021 Varotto, E., Militello, P. M., Platania, E., Sferrazza, P., & Galassi, F. M. (2021). Paleopathological study of a podal osteochondroma from the prehistoric Hypogeum of Calaforno (Sicily). Clinical Anatomy, 34(1), 19-23.
Scopus5 WoS42021 Galassi, F. M., Pate, F. D., Antunes-Ferreira, N., & Varotto, E. (2021). King ariarathes IV of cappadocia’s impotence in the light of thyroid disease: A multidisciplinary palaeopathological analysis. Anthropologie (Czech Republic), 59(1), 87-92.
2021 Galassi, F. M., Habicht, M. E., Pate, F. D., & Varotto, E. (2021). Flying higher than politics: The goal of preventive medicine at the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. European Journal of Internal Medicine, 86, 102-103.
Scopus9 WoS6 Europe PMC62021 Galassi, F. M., Ingaliso, L., Percivaldi, E., & Varotto, E. (2021). Chickenpox and Shingles: Historical and Palæovirological Considerations. Human Evolution, 36(3-4), 259-267.
Scopus12021 Galassi, F. M., & Varotto, E. (2021). Smallpox in art: considerations on some of its medical and social aspects. Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology, 35(8), 1612-1613.
Scopus5 WoS1 Europe PMC22020 Armocida, E., Bianucci, R., Varotto, E., de Herder, W. W., & Galassi, F. M. (2020). Hereditary acromegalic gigantism in the family of Roman Emperor Maximinus Thrax. Medical Hypotheses, 136, 2 pages.
Scopus5 WoS3 Europe PMC12020 Galassi, F. M., & Varotto, E. (2020). Sinophobia as the disease and palaeopathology as the cure: response to Adja et al.. Public Health, 187, 189-190.
Scopus4 WoS2 Europe PMC12020 Perciaccante, A., Lippi, D., Coralli, A., Charlier, P., Appenzeller, O., Galassi, F. M., . . . Bianucci, R. (2020). Aeschylus' Legendary Head Trauma: Reflections on Pseudopathology and the Origins of Mythology. Journal of Craniofacial Surgery, 31(1), 30-31.
Scopus1 WoS12020 Galassi, F. M., Varotto, E., Angelici, D., & Picchi, D. (2020). Further Paleoradiological Evidence of Frontal Sinus Osteoma in Ancient Egypt. Journal of Craniofacial Surgery, 31(3), 604-605.
Scopus2 WoS2 Europe PMC12020 Galassi, F. M., Varotto, E., Nerlich, A. G., Shin, D. H., & Bianucci, R. (2020). Re: Heindl et al.: The eyes of Oetzi: the Tyrolean iceman mummy (Ophthalmology. 2019;126:530). Ophthalmology, 127(1), e4.
Scopus12020 Grassi, T., Varotto, E., & Galassi, F. M. (2020). COVID-19, a viral endocrinological disease?. European Journal of Internal Medicine, 77, 156-157.
Scopus6 WoS7 Europe PMC42020 Galassi, F. M., Brancato, R., Magro, M. T., & Varotto, E. (2020). BIOARCHAEOLOGICAL AND PALEOPATHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF A BURIAL FROM THE LATE ROMAN NECROPOLIS OF PIANOTTA DI CALATABIANO (CT, SICILY). STUDI ROMANI, 64(1), 31-37. 2019 Varotto, E., & Galassi, F. M. (2019). A likely representation of goiter in Antonio Canova’s Helen of Troy. Journal of Endocrinological Investigation, 42(11), 1389-1390.
2019 Varotto, E., Nizzo, V., & Galassi, F. M. (2019). Poliomyelitis in ancient Greece (5th century BC)?. Neurology, 92(14), 678-679.
Scopus2 WoS1 Europe PMC12019 Galassi, F. M., Varotto, E., Zanatta, A., & Zampieri, F. (2019). Correction to: Did Antonio Vallisneri (1661–1730) really describe frontal sinus osteoma? Unexpected insights for paleo-neuroparasitology (Neurological Sciences, (2018), 39, 7, (1275-1277), 10.1007/s10072-018-3312-7). Neurological Sciences, 40(1), 229.
2019 Sessa, F., Varotto, E., Salerno, M., Vanin, S., Bertozzi, G., Galassi, F. M., . . . Ricci, P. (2019). First report of Heleomyzidae (Diptera) recovered from the inner cavity of an intact human femur. Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, 66, 4-7.
Scopus7 WoS7 Europe PMC32019 Varotto, E., Magro, M. T., Brancato, R., Lubritto, C., Memeo, L., & Galassi, F. M. (2019). Unique osteoid osteoma of the frontal sinus from the late Roman Empire. Journal of Craniofacial Surgery, 30(4), 965-966.
Scopus6 WoS6 Europe PMC12019 Papa, V., Galassi, F. M., Polito, E., Capelli, G., Rodio, A., Vaccarezza, M., . . . Varotto, E. (2019). The muscles of the athletes to learn surface anatomy - The Influence of classical statues on anatomy teaching. Italian Journal of Anatomy and Embryology, 124(2), 164-175.
Scopus32019 Papa, V., Varotto, E., Vaccarezza, M., Ballestriero, R., Tafuri, D., & Galassi, F. M. (2019). The teaching of anatomy throughout the centuries: From Herophilus to plastination and beyond. Medicina Historica, 3(2), 69-77.
Scopus132018 Galassi, F. M., Varotto, E., Zanatta, A., & Zampieri, F. (2018). Did Antonio Vallisneri (1661–1730) really describe frontal sinus osteoma? Unexpected insights for paleo-neuroparasitology. Neurological Sciences, 39(7), 1275-1277.
Scopus5 WoS5 Europe PMC42018 Varotto, E., Cossarizza, A., & Galassi, F. M. (2018). The Contribution of Poliomyelitis to President Roosevelt’s Heart Failure. A Lesson on the Importance of Vaccinations for Cardiovascular Prevention. High Blood Pressure and Cardiovascular Prevention, 25(4), 425-426.
2018 Varotto, E., & Armocida, E. (2018). Further data corroborating a pituitary contribution to the genesis of the Cyclopean myth. Hormones, 17(4), 595-596.
Scopus6 WoS5 Europe PMC12018 Varotto, E., & Ballestriero, R. (2018). 17th-century sculptural representation of leprosy in Perugia’s Cathedral. Infection, 46(6), 893-895.
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Book Chapters
Year Citation 2022 Galassi, F. M., Spani, G., & Varotto, E. (2022). Paleopathology and anthropology of the renaissance: From the morbus dominorum to the alleged 'michelangelo's shoes'. In Rethinking Medical Humanities: Perspectives from the Arts and the Social Sciences (pp. 253-260). De Gruyter.
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Conference Papers
Year Citation 2022 Habicht, M., Moraes, C., Varotto, E., Papa, V., Aquila, I., Ricci, P., & Galassi, F. M. (2022). KV55-Akhenaton: Reassessment of the anthropological literature and a novel facial reconstruction. In JOURNAL OF ANATOMY Vol. 240 (pp. 800-801). WILEY. 2022 Papa, V., Varotto, E., del Pizzo, S., Troisi, S., Di Ciaccio, F., Staiano, S. S., . . . Galassi, F. M. (2022). Preliminary notes on a human eared skull. In JOURNAL OF ANATOMY Vol. 240 (pp. 784). WILEY. 2021 Papa, V., Varotto, E., Vaccarezza, M., & Galassi, F. M. (2021). The anatomical drawings: the intersection of anatomy and art. In JOURNAL OF ANATOMY Vol. 238 (pp. 198). WILEY.
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