A case of myositis ossificans traumatica on one skeleton from Viminacium

Dragana, Vulović, Nataša, Miladinović-Radmilović, Ilija, Mikić

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http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/Article.aspx?ID=0350-02411969203V

2019-2020/02/28/23:02:59

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]

Late Antiquity, Viminacium, bone fracture, myositis ossificans traumafica, site od Pećine