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Long bone fractures identified in the Joseon Dynasty human skeletons of Korea
Fracture is one of the pathological signs most frequently encountered in archaeologically obtained bones. To expand the paleopathological knowledge on traumatic injuries, it is desirable to secure data on long bone fractures from as wide a geographic and temporal range as possible. We present, for t...
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Korean Association of Anatomists
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3811853/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24179696 http://dx.doi.org/10.5115/acb.2013.46.3.203 |
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author | Kim, Deog Kyeom Kim, Myeung Ju Kim, Yi-Suk Oh, Chang Seok Lee, Sang-Seob Lim, Sang Beom Ki, Ho Chul Shin, Dong Hoon |
author_facet | Kim, Deog Kyeom Kim, Myeung Ju Kim, Yi-Suk Oh, Chang Seok Lee, Sang-Seob Lim, Sang Beom Ki, Ho Chul Shin, Dong Hoon |
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description | Fracture is one of the pathological signs most frequently encountered in archaeologically obtained bones. To expand the paleopathological knowledge on traumatic injuries, it is desirable to secure data on long bone fractures from as wide a geographic and temporal range as possible. We present, for the first time, evidence of long bone fractures in a 16th-18th century Joseon skeletal series (n=96). In this study, we found 3 Colles' fractures of the radius in 2 individual cases. The pattern of fractures was unique. Although previous reports show that the ulna is broken more often than the radius, ulnar fracture associated with fending off a blunt attack was rare in our series (1/7 cases). Transverse fractures, typically caused by intentional violence, were also very rare (1/7 cases) in this study. These results may reflect the relatively tranquil lives of the Joseon people in 16th-18th century Korea. We also found post-fracture complications such as deformations, bone length shortening, and osteomyelitis. The present study would be of interest to medical scientists in related fields because it is one of the few studies conducted on long bone fractures among pre-modern societies in East Asian countries, thus far. |
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spelling | pubmed-38118532013-10-31 Long bone fractures identified in the Joseon Dynasty human skeletons of Korea Kim, Deog Kyeom Kim, Myeung Ju Kim, Yi-Suk Oh, Chang Seok Lee, Sang-Seob Lim, Sang Beom Ki, Ho Chul Shin, Dong Hoon Anat Cell Biol Original Article Fracture is one of the pathological signs most frequently encountered in archaeologically obtained bones. To expand the paleopathological knowledge on traumatic injuries, it is desirable to secure data on long bone fractures from as wide a geographic and temporal range as possible. We present, for the first time, evidence of long bone fractures in a 16th-18th century Joseon skeletal series (n=96). In this study, we found 3 Colles' fractures of the radius in 2 individual cases. The pattern of fractures was unique. Although previous reports show that the ulna is broken more often than the radius, ulnar fracture associated with fending off a blunt attack was rare in our series (1/7 cases). Transverse fractures, typically caused by intentional violence, were also very rare (1/7 cases) in this study. These results may reflect the relatively tranquil lives of the Joseon people in 16th-18th century Korea. We also found post-fracture complications such as deformations, bone length shortening, and osteomyelitis. The present study would be of interest to medical scientists in related fields because it is one of the few studies conducted on long bone fractures among pre-modern societies in East Asian countries, thus far. Korean Association of Anatomists 2013-09 2013-09-30 /pmc/articles/PMC3811853/ /pubmed/24179696 http://dx.doi.org/10.5115/acb.2013.46.3.203 Text en Copyright © 2013. Anatomy & Cell Biology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Kim, Deog Kyeom Kim, Myeung Ju Kim, Yi-Suk Oh, Chang Seok Lee, Sang-Seob Lim, Sang Beom Ki, Ho Chul Shin, Dong Hoon Long bone fractures identified in the Joseon Dynasty human skeletons of Korea |
title | Long bone fractures identified in the Joseon Dynasty human skeletons of Korea |
title_full | Long bone fractures identified in the Joseon Dynasty human skeletons of Korea |
title_fullStr | Long bone fractures identified in the Joseon Dynasty human skeletons of Korea |
title_full_unstemmed | Long bone fractures identified in the Joseon Dynasty human skeletons of Korea |
title_short | Long bone fractures identified in the Joseon Dynasty human skeletons of Korea |
title_sort | long bone fractures identified in the joseon dynasty human skeletons of korea |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3811853/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24179696 http://dx.doi.org/10.5115/acb.2013.46.3.203 |
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