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

Sébastien Villotte (1) , Sandra Assis (2) , Francisca Alves Cardoso (3) , Charlotte Yvette Henderson (4) , Valentina Mariotti (5) , Marco Milella (6) , Doris Pany-Kucera , Nivien Speith (7) , Cynthia Wilczak (8) , Robert Jurmain (9)

1 PACEA - De la Préhistoire à l'Actuel : Culture, Environnement et Anthropologie
2 Universidade de Coimbra [Coimbra]
3 NOVA - Universidade Nova de Lisboa = NOVA University Lisbon
4 UC - University of Coimbra [Portugal]
5 ADES - Anthropologie bio-culturelle, Droit, Ethique et Santé
6 UZH - Universität Zürich [Zürich] = University of Zurich
7 BU - Bournemouth University [Poole]
8 SFSU - San Francisco State University
9 SJSU - San Jose State University [San Jose]

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.

Mots clés: Enthesis; terminology; Fibrocartilaginous enthesis; spondyloarthropathies; diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH)

Domaines: Anthropologie biologique; Linguistique

Sébastien Villotte, Sandra Assis, Francisca Alves Cardoso, Charlotte Yvette Henderson, Valentina Mariotti, et al.. In search of consensus: Terminology for entheseal changes (EC). International Journal of Paleopathology, 2016, 13, pp.49-55. ⟨10.1016/j.ijpp.2016.01.003⟩. ⟨hal-02266502⟩