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Riccardo Chiavegatti1, Paula Canales2, Eduardo Saldias3
1Associate Professor, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Hospital Universitari Sagrat Cor, Barcelona, Spain.
Abstract:
Mueller-Weiss disease is an alteration of the tarsal navicular that is primarily due to anomalous ossification of the bone and lateral deviation of the talar head associated with screw-like movement through the axis of the subtalar joint. This syndrome tends to be associated with various degrees of flatfoot and hindfoot valgus combined with subtalar joint varus. Ancient cases of Mueller-Weiss disease have not been described in specialized literature. We present the case of an adult male from the Hellenistic period (Ptolemaic dynasty; fourth to first century BC), the skeleton for which was found inside a sarcophagus in the archaeological site of Sharuna (middle Egypt) with Mueller-Weiss disease. The specimen is, in all likelihood, the earliest case of this type of foot pathology in the archaeological record.
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