Deceased persons or human remains may be identified by the recognition of pathological
structures, malformations or normal anatomical variants of organs and tissues. Throughout
times, they have also contributed to historical and epidemiological studies of diseases
and populations’ characteristics. The case here reported concerns a femur presenting
a mass-forming lesion, whose anthropological examination suggested to be a certain
bone tumor and the histopathological evaluation provided a different and definitive
diagnosis – that of a Juxtacortical (Parosteal) Osteoma –, thus emphasizing the value of
cooperative work among forensic sciences, for any kind of medico-legal investigation