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标题：Paralysis and severe disability requiring intensive care in Neolithic Asia
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作者：MARC F. OXENHAM ; LORNA TILLEY ; HIROFUMI MATSUMURA 等
期刊名称：Anthropological Science
印刷版ISSN：0918-7960
电子版ISSN：1348-8570
出版年度：2009
卷号：117
期号：2
页码：107-112
DOI：10.1537/ase.081114
语种：English
出版社：The Anthropological Society of Nippon
摘要：This communication documents one of the earliest verifiable cases of human paralysis associated with severe spinal pathology. A series of skeletal abnormalities is described for a young adult male (M9) from a Southeast Asian Neolithic community. Differential diagnosis suggests that M9 suffered from a severely disabling congenital fusion of the spine (Klippel–Feil Syndrome, Type III), resulting in child-onset lower body paralysis at a minimum (maximally quadriplegia). M9 experienced severe, most probably total, incapacitation for at least a decade prior to death. In the prehistoric context, this individual’s condition would have rendered him completely dependent on others for survival.
关键词：quadriparesis;Klippel–Feil;juvenile-onset