Table 10 Reported frequencies of os vesalianum in the literature.

From: Accessory foot bones in a Portuguese identified skeletal collection

Reference

Prevalence

Sample

Frequency basis

Pfitzner (1896)6

0.0%

1000

Foot

Bizarro (1921)45

0.0%

100

Foot

Heimerzheim (1925)49

0.9%

1800

Foot

Vasiljević et al. (2010)59

2.2%

270

Individual

Pitchandi et al. (2019)60

1.5%

1000

Individual

Kalbouneh et al. (2017)13

2.2%

1000

Individual

Present study

1.2%

485

Individual

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