In search of consensus: Terminology for entheseal changes (EC)

Sébastien Villotte; Sandra Assis; Francisca Alves Cardoso; Charlotte Yvette Henderson; Valentina Mariotti; Marco Milella; Doris Pany-Kucera; Nivien Speith; Cynthia A Wilczak; Robert Jurmain

doi:10.1016/j.ijpp.2016.01.003

In search of consensus: Terminology for entheseal changes (EC)

Int J Paleopathol. 2016 Jun:13:49-55. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpp.2016.01.003. Epub 2016 Feb 12.

Affiliations

¹ Anthropologie des Populations Passées et Présentes, UMR 5199 PACEA, Bâtiment B8, Allée Geoffroy Saint Hilaire, Université de Bordeaux, CS 50023, Pessac Cedex 33615, France. Electronic address: s.villotte@pacea.u-bordeaux1.fr.
² CIAS-Research Centre for Anthropology and Health, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Portugal. Electronic address: sandraassis78@gmail.com.
³ NOVA CRIA-Centre for Research in Anthropology, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal. Electronic address: francicard@fcsh.unl.pt.
⁴ CIAS-Research Centre for Anthropology and Health, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Portugal. Electronic address: c.y.henderson@uc.pt.
⁵ Laboratorio di Bioarcheologia ed Osteologia Forense-Antropologia-Dipartimento di Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche e Ambientali-Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna,Via Selmi 3, 40126 Bologna, Italy; ADÉS, UMR 7268 CNRS/Aix-Marseille Université/EFS, Aix-Marseille Université, CS80011, Bd Pierre Dramard, 13344 Marseille Cedex 15, France. Electronic address: valentina.mariotti@unibo.it.
⁶ Anthropological Institute & Museum, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland. Electronic address: marco.milella@aim.uzh.ch.
⁷ Natural History Museum Vienna, Department of Anthropology/Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria. Electronic address: dpany@nhm-wien.ac.at.
⁸ Department of Archaeology, Anthropology and Forensic Science, Bournemouth University, Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow, Poole BH12 5BB, UK. Electronic address: nspeith@bournemouth.ac.uk.
⁹ Department of Anthropology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, USA. Electronic address: cwilczak@sfsu.edu.
¹⁰ Department of Anthropology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, USA. Electronic address: robert.jurmain@sjsu.edu.

PMID: 29539508
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpp.2016.01.003

Abstract

This article presents a consensus terminology for entheseal changes that was developed in English by an international team of scholars and then translated into French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and German. Use of a standard, neutral terminology to describe entheseal morphology will reduce misunderstandings between researchers, improve the reliability of comparisons between studies, and eliminate unwarranted etiological assumptions inherent in some of the descriptive terms presently used in the literature.

Keywords: Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH); Enthesis; Fibrocartilaginous enthesis; Spondyloarthropathies; Terminology.