Showing papers in "International Journal of Paleopathology in 2011"

TL;DR: Survival of an adult male with juvenile-onset quadriplegia in Neolithic Vietnam indicates provision of continuous care from his community, and adds to the growing literature documenting survival of disabled individuals in prehistory.

TL;DR: This study discusses some of the hazards associated with interpreting texts that provide evidence for disease episodes in past populations, and suggests a framework with which to assess how reliable written passages may be in allowing us to reach a modern biological diagnosis for a historical disease event.

TL;DR: The Digital Radiography and Multi Detector Computerized Tomography (MDCT) scans of a male Ptolemaic Egyptian mummy displayed several focal dense bone lesions located mainly on the spine, pelvis and proximal extremities, which could be one of the oldest evidence of this disease, as well as being the cause of death.

TL;DR: This study uses pre-Columbian Andean sickness ideology reconstructed from ethnography and ethnohistory as an interpretative framework for data from these individuals' mortuary contexts and isotopic analyses used to infer residential mobility.

TL;DR: Recent developed diagnostic procedures and methods for extracting relevant data from skeletal tissue provide new options for exploring important questions and trying to clarify the role of disease in the evolutionary process that resulted in human societies today.

TL;DR: The results suggest that the disease was much more prevalent in Romano-British society than has been previously reported and the nature of skeletal tuberculosis in children and various differential diagnoses are discussed.

TL;DR: The presence of fish tapeworm eggs in a crusader period cesspool in Acre suggests its use by crusaders or pilgrims from northern Europe who travelled to the Levant carrying these parasites in their intestines suggests human migration in past populations is highlighted.

TL;DR: A review of the known effects of the postmortem alterations in structure and biochemical content in specimens of human mummies to help prevent misinterpretations of studied findings.

TL;DR: This work, based on individuals who died before the introduction of antibiotics for treatment, agrees with clinical studies that have established a possible correlation between pulmonary conditions and HOA.

TL;DR: There is considerable potential for collaboration among paleopathologists and primatologists in examining the causes of illness and disability in animals and its impact on their lives.

TL;DR: The goals of this paper are to describe the evidence for a postmortem examination and contextualize the significance of such a procedure within the prevailing cultural attitudes toward the body and anatomy, and to discuss the procedure as a form of embodied identity.

TL;DR: This paper considers the possible etiology of a group of commonly observed but poorly researched pathologies found in archaeological assemblages of animal bones: depressions on the articular surfaces of cattle (Bos taurus) phalanges.

TL;DR: Modern clinical standards do not take into account the variation in human body size and shape and the effect this variation may have on obstetric capacity without compromising obstetric function, according to bioarchaeological and clinical contexts.

TL;DR: The health benefits of cattle pastoralism demonstrate the importance of pastoral products for peoples coping with a deteriorating desert climate.

TL;DR: The skeletal remains of a young adult male recovered from an Old Kingdom cemetery at Saqqara, Egypt, displayed multiple skeletal abnormalities in the limbs and vertebral column that have been diagnosed as multiple epiphyseal dysplasia (MED).

TL;DR: The Natural History Collections, Bergen Museum, The University of Bergen, Norway, houses a large collection of Baleen whale skeletons within which one mature Fin and one juvenile Humpback whale skeleton exhibit notable osteological pathologies that are reported in this brief communication.

TL;DR: Differential diagnoses using macroscopic and radiographic analyses indicate that this individual's pathological condition was caused by osteogenesis imperfecta (IO), possibly Type IIB/III, or Type IV OI, corroborating with characteristics reported in the clinical literature.

TL;DR: It is concluded that the most likely possibilities are either surgery necessitated as a result of trench foot, or punitive amputation.

TL;DR: Analysis of the late Iron Age human remains from Maiden Castle concluded that individuals had died during an episode of warfare, one of which probably included the Roman conquest of 43AD.

TL;DR: The findings question the possible relationship between Baastrup's sign and vertebral ankylosis, as well as the influence of border shifting on the expression of the condition.

TL;DR: Assessment of a ten site subadult sample from Pre-Columbian Tennessee for primary double teeth finds dental fusion may link to the health of the reproductive age female and other avenues of community health as well as the genetic basis of tooth fusion should be explored.

TL;DR: The systematic analysis of skeletal pathology in a modern collection of sheep skeletons with known history reveals connections between the formation of these lesions and age, sex and body weight.

TL;DR: This study reviewed the detailed autopsy records and photos of 282 spontaneously desiccated mummies from northern Chile's Atacama Desert and found that their STP scores were predictive of internal organ preservation.

TL;DR: A case of unilateral aural atresia in an adult female skeleton from the Greek colonial site of Apollonia Pontica on the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria is described and its impact on this individual's ability to hear is evaluated using modern clinical data.

TL;DR: A possible case of concha bullosa, the abnormal pneumatisation of the middle turbinate, is presented and the potential importance of this condition in earlier populations is discussed.

TL;DR: The nature of the bony changes, reconstructs the morphology of the feet, and offers a differential diagnosis of bilateral idiopathic talipes equinovarus are described.