HORÁČKOVÁ, Ladislava and Frank RÜHLI. A CASE OF SEVERE ANKYLOSIS OF TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT FROM NEW KINGDOM NECROPOLIS (SAQQARA, EGYPT). In Ryan Metcalfe, Jenefer Cockitt, Rosalie David. Palaeopathology in Egypt and Nubia. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2014, p. 83-94. ISBN 978-1-78491-026-6.
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Original name A CASE OF SEVERE ANKYLOSIS OF TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT FROM NEW KINGDOM NECROPOLIS (SAQQARA, EGYPT)
Authors HORÁČKOVÁ, Ladislava (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Frank RÜHLI (756 Switzerland).
Edition Oxford, Palaeopathology in Egypt and Nubia, p. 83-94, 12 pp. 2014.
Publisher Archaeopress
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Original language English
Type of outcome Proceedings paper
Field of Study Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology
Country of publisher United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
Publication form printed version "print"
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14110/14:00077730
Organization unit Faculty of Medicine
ISBN 978-1-78491-026-6
Keywords in English Egypt; New Kingdom necropolis; Paleopathology;Ankylosis; Temporomandibular joint
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Abstract
One of the rare paleopathological findings discovered at the New Kingdom necropolis at Saqqara (during the 2007 season) was case of unilateral ankylosis of the temporomandibular joint (TMJ). Human skeletal remains discovered here by the international expedition organised by Rijksmuseum of Leiden came from excavations in the three chapels of Ptahemwia (‘Royal Butler, Clean of Hands' during the reigns of the pharaohs Akhenaten and Tutankhamun /1353-1323 BC/). Precise dating of the studied skeleton is nevertheless difficult because remains from the chapels found most superficially were secondary burial sites. The mandible of a 16-17 year old individual with a severely deformed head of the left condylar process, a sequential deformation of the mandibular fossa of the temporal bone and an asymmetry of the entire mandible is one of the most interesting finds that came from the north chapel of Ptahemwia. The right mandibular head was also stricken with a degenerative process, due to a changed chewing mechanism apparently, since the handicapped individual loaded less the impaired temporo-mandibular joint and overloaded thus the relatively healthy side. Ankylosis of the TMJ is most commonly associated with trauma, local or systemic infection, or systemic disease. In this article the authors discuss the anatomical particularity of the mandibular condylar process in relation to a trauma of this area and offer a detailed differential diagnostics.
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