A case of myositis ossificans traumatica on one skeleton from Viminacium
The Roman city and military camp of Viminacium is situated between the villages of Stari Kostolac and Drmno, 12 kilometres north-east of Požarevac, close to the confluence of the Mlava and the Danube. During its history, it became the biggest urban settlement and the capital of the province...
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Institute of Archaeology, Belgrade, Serbia
2019-01-01
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| Online Access: | http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0350-0241/2019/0350-02411969203V.pdf |
| Summary: | The Roman city and military camp of Viminacium is situated between the
villages of Stari Kostolac and Drmno, 12 kilometres north-east of Požarevac,
close to the confluence of the Mlava and the Danube. During its history, it
became the biggest urban settlement and the capital of the province of Upper
Moesia (Moesia Superior), later First Moesia (Moesia Prima). In one of the
necropoles of Viminacium, Pećine, in grave No. 5785, skeletal remains of a
juvenile male individual were discovered. The burial took place in Late
Antiquity. Anthropological analyses revealed a fracture of the right femur
followed by myositis ossificans traumatica. The trauma to the bone can damage
the overlying muscle and, occasionally, the muscle tissue will respond to the
trauma by producing bone directly in the muscle tissue itself. This condition
is known as myositis ossificans traumafica (post-traumatic myositis
ossificans or myositis ossificans circumscripta) and is most likely to occur
in response to trauma in young male individuals, and in the femoral (the
quadriceps muscles) or humeral region (brachium muscles). [Project of the
Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Grant
no. 47018: Viminacium, Roman city and military legion camp - research of the
material and non material culture of inhabitants by using the modern
technologies of remote detection, geophysics, GIS, digitalisation and 3D
visualisation, Grant no. 177007: Romanization, urbanization and
transformation of urban centres of civil, military and residential character
in Roman provinces on the territory of Serbia and Grant no. 177021:
Urbanization and development processes in the medieval society] |
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| ISSN: | 0350-0241 2406-0739 |