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

Kód výsledku v 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>

Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

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J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60102 - Archaeology

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2022

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Anthropologischer Anzeiger

ISSN

0003-5548

e-ISSN

2363-7099

Svazek periodika

79

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

3

Stát vydavatele periodika

DE - Spolková republika Německo

Počet stran výsledku

15

Strana od-do

315-329

Kód UT WoS článku

000753653700001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85127924325