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MASTOIDITIS: A CASE FROM LATE OTTOMAN PERIOD SKELETAL REMAINS

Sağır Mehmet (1), Özer İsmail (1), Sağır Seçil (2), Özer Başak Koca (1)

1) Ankara University, Faculty of Languages, History and Geography, Department of Anthropology, Ankara, Turkey; 2) Ahi Evran University, Faculty of Science and Letters, Department of Anthropology, Bağbaşı Campus, Kırşehir, Turkey

Sağır Mehmet, e-mail: mhmtsgr@gmail.com.

Abstract

Mastoiditis is an inflammation of the cells in the mastoid region of the temporal bone, and may occur nearly after two weeks of the beginning of acute otitis media. Otitis media is one of the frequently encountered complications, and can lead to deafness when it spread to the surrounding areas. Distribution of the inflammation may cause complications over large endocranial sinuses, lead to meningitis and extradural or the brain abscess, as well. Corruption of drainage of the mastoid cells is the basic pathophysiological mechanisms leading to mastoiditis. Characteristic clinical findings are auricular proptosis, retroauricular erythema and others where the most common symptoms are persistent otalgia, fever, and poor nutrition. Acute mastoiditis is a disease more common in children. The present study identifies pathological changes in the pneumatised cells of the mastoid process based on macroscopic, light microscopic, radiological and x-ray computed tomography investigations in human skeletal remains from the Late Ottoman Empire Period in Karacaahmet Cemetery, İstanbul, Turkey. During the examinations from Karacaahmet Skeletal Collection, a mastoiditis case was diagnosed, which is so far the first known from Ottoman collections. The skull belongs to an adult female subject. It is suggested that further paleopathological investigations are needed in the incidence of the infectious ear diseases to reflect living and health conditions of ancient Anatolian populations.

Keywords

Mastoiditis, infection, skull, paleopathology, Anatolia

Цит.: Sağır Mehmet, Özer İsmail, Sağır Seçil, Özer Başak Koca MASTOIDITIS: A CASE FROM LATE OTTOMAN PERIOD SKELETAL REMAINS // Moscow University Anthropology Bulletin (Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seria XXIII. Antropologia), 2014; 3/2014; с. 42-43