The Birmingham mummy: the first torticollis in history.
The Birmingham Mummy is of a warrior, 25-35 years of age, from the Graeco-Roman period. He was struck from the front by an arrow, which penetrated the soft tissues of the neck to some depth and lodged in the right infratemporal fossa. It is suggested that the wound became infected and that muscle spasm induced the torticollis which was not fully corrected on mummification.
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Department of Otolaryngology, Dudley Road Hospital, Birmingham, UK.
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