Radiology Study of Two Fractures in an Andean Mummy

Abstract

In this study we present a human mummified body, of sex woman, belonging to the collection of the Museum of Medical and Forensic Anthropology, Paleopathology and Criminalistics, of the Faculty of Medicine of the Complutense University of Madrid (Reverte, 1999). This mummy presents a fracture of the left humerus at the middle third of the diaphysis, and another fracture in the left femur at the middle third of the diaphysis. We made macrocospic and radiological study, and, in view of the obtained results, we can conclude that these mentioned fractures are produced perimortem, and that both fractures have been produced at the same time and for different mechanisms.