Diagnosis and Treatment of Paget's Disease of Bone. From: American Family Physician | Date: May 15, 2002| Author: SCHNEIDER, DORON; HOFMANN, MARY T.; PETERSON, JEANNETTE A. | COPYRIGHT 2002 American Academy of Family Physicians. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Paget's disease of bone (also known as osteitis deformans) is a nonmalignant disease involving accelerated bone resorption followed by deposition of dense, chaotic, and ineffectively mineralized bone matrix. The origin of the disease is unknown, and it is frequently asymptomatic; however, the patient may present with symptoms depending on the bones involved. The most common symptom is pain in the affected bone; neurologic, hearing, vision, cardiac, and oncologic complications are p...

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