
By Andrea Piccioli,Valentina Gazzaniga,Paola Catalano
ISBN-10: 3319194844
ISBN-13: 9783319194844
ISBN-10: 3319368028
ISBN-13: 9783319368023
This ebook offers the result of a distinct macroscopic and radiological research, by means of X-ray and CT experiment, of the bone pathologies of approximately 1800 matters who lived on the time of the Roman Empire (first and moment centuries A.D.) and whose is still have been recovered through the excavation of a suburban necropolis of Rome. The survey, which represents a collaboration among the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology and the unique Superintendent for the Archaeological historical past of Rome, has yielded impressive photographs of alternative orthopaedic ailments in a interval whilst no surgical procedure used to be to be had: there are situations of an infection (osteomyelitis), metabolic ailment (gout), hematologic ailment (multiple myeloma), stressful lesions and their problems and degenerative pathology (osteoarthritis, fairly secondary and overload). A multidisciplinary staff together with orthopaedists, paleopathologists, radiologists and clinical historians has evaluated the foremost teams of bone sickness within the inhabitants checking out terrific situations and imagine of ortho-traumatologic pathologies in a pre-surgical period. The homogeneity of the pattern and the variety of topics make this a examine of primary importance.