Paleopathology Case 69

The image is from a breast section stained with fast red against antibody to MAM6. It is from the mummy of an 18-year-old girl belonging to the Maitas culture who died about 1000 years ago. She was our youngest pregnant female and had delivered one twin, but bled to death before the delivery of the second baby. She held the umbilical cord of the first baby in her hand. 

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Case 69 Breast section

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Updated March 6, 2006