HIGH FIELD MRI OF JOINTS AND LIMBS’ TISSUES OF THE WOMAN’S MUMMY FROM BURIAL AK-ALAKHA-3 ON THE UKOK PLATEAU
Andrey Yurievich LETYAGIN1,2, Nataliya Viktorovna POLOS’MAK3, Andrey Aleksandrovich SAVELOV2, Maxim Alexandrovich KOROLEV1, Elena Alekseevna LETYAGINA1
1Research Institute of Clinical and Experimental Lymphology - a Branch of Federal Research Center of the Institute of Cytology and Genetics of SB RAS
2Institute В«International Tomographic Center» of SB RAS
3Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of SB RAS
Keywords: мумия, магнитно-резонансная томография, суставы, опорно-двигательный аппарат, mummy, magnetic resonance imaging, joints, musculoskeletal system
Abstract
The goal is to perform a paleoradiologic MRI study of the tissues of the musculoskeletal system of the mummy of a woman from the Pazyryk culture from the Ak-Alakh-3 burial ground on the Ukok Plateau, in which previously had been found tumor metastases (from the right breast) and the consequences of a severe trauma - a dislocation of the right hip and damage to the right brachial joints. The method is a high-field MRI on the magnetic resonance scanner (Achieva Nova, Philips, 1.5 T). Results. The manifestations of osteomyelitis of the femurs bones were revealed in the tissues of the musculoskeletal apparatus of the mummy. The signs of damage to the anterior cruciate ligament of the right knee joint and lig. bifurcatum of the right foot were revealed, which indicates the effect of unfavorable factors of traumatic genesis. There were also signs of an inflammatory process, spondyloarthritis and osteoarthritis (probably autoimmune genesis): a pronounced narrowing of both sacroiliac joints, zones of inflammatory edema of bone tissue in the projection of the left sacroiliac joint, joints of the foot, involvement of the periarticular soft tissues-achillobursitis.
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