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Darrera modificació: 2018-02-22
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Pasini, Alba - Manzon, Vanessa Samantha - Gonzalez-Muro, Xabier - Gualdi-Russo, Emanuela, "Neurosurgery on a pregnant woman with post-mortem fetal extrusion: an unusual case from Medieval Italy", World Neurosurgery, ***/*** (2018), (preprint).
- Resum
- Trepanation is one of the most ancient and applied surgical treatments; several archaeologically documented cases are known, dated back from Prehistory to the Middle ages. This case study reports the anthropological analysis of the skeletal remains of a young medieval woman and a fetus (Imola, Italy). The fetal remains were laid between her pelvis and lower limbs. A perforating injury was observed to her frontal bone. After assessing biological profiles, we attempted to interpret the injury and to reconstruct possible circumstances of death.The lesion seems commensurate with a surgical intervention; signs of an osteogenic reaction were detected at its edges. It can be hypothesized that the survival of the woman undergoing the surgery was about one week and the fetus extruded after the burial. Thus, this case represents a unicum, spreading more light on the history of Neurosurgery during Early Middle Ages in Europe.
- Matèries
- Arqueologia
Medicina - Cirurgia i anatomia
- URL
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S ...
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