Severe chest polytrauma and vertebral number variation of an old woman from the Early Middle Ages

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00094862%3A_____%2F22%3AN0000102" target="_blank" >RIV/00094862:_____/22:N0000102 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.schweizerbart.de/papers/anthranz/detail/79/100934/Severe_chest_polytrauma_and_vertebral_number_variation_of_an_old_woman_from_the_Early_Middle_Ages" target="_blank" >https://www.schweizerbart.de/papers/anthranz/detail/79/100934/Severe_chest_polytrauma_and_vertebral_number_variation_of_an_old_woman_from_the_Early_Middle_Ages</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1127/anthranz/2022/1570" target="_blank" >10.1127/anthranz/2022/1570</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Severe chest polytrauma and vertebral number variation of an old woman from the Early Middle Ages

Original language description

This study describes a case of polytrauma of the axial skeleton accompanied by a spinal anatomical variation of an early medieval old female skeleton (dated to the 8th-9th century AD), with the purpose of clarifying the origin of the condition and to understand its impact on the life quality of the individual. The skeleton was subjected to macroscopic and X-ray examination. An anthropological analysis discovered the skeleton is well preserved, gracile, and with significant traces of physical activity. A detailed survey of the spine revealed there are six cervical, 12 thoracic, and six lumbar vertebrae. The examination of the pathological changes discovered a severe chest polytrauma (a compressive fracture of the 9th thoracic vertebra and multiple rib fractures), associated with pleural rind ossification, severe osteoarthritis, and ankylosis of both intervertebral and costovertebral joints.The irregularity in the number of vertebrae was determined as a double meristic vertebral variation probably caused by a presomitic mesoderm segmentation disorder. The pathological changes examined were assumed to be of traumatic aetiology with a possible osteoporotic background, and were compared with similar changes caused by tuberculosis and ankylosing spondylitis. The woman had to have been suffering from severe back pain, her back was deformed to a dowager's hump, but she managed to survive for many years after the traumatic event.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60102 - Archaeology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Anthropologischer Anzeiger

ISSN

0003-5548

e-ISSN

2363-7099

Volume of the periodical

79

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

315-329

UT code for WoS article

000753653700001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85127924325