Ancient Woman's Leg Injury Led to Unusual Bone Growth, Experts Discover.

Anthropologists have discovered a 3-inch long "rope-like" extra bone growth on the skeleton of an adult female in Constância, Portugal. The bone growth was caused by trauma and is the first documented case of myositis ossificans traumatica on the area of the pectineus muscle. The extra bone growth would have been extremely painful and would have made it hard for the woman to move around. The researchers found that the extra bone growth was between 6 weeks and a year old.