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Imaging Pearls ❯ Musculoskeletal ❯ Pagets Disease

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  • Pagets Disease: Facts
    - Increased incidence with age
    - Up to 10% of caucasians over age 85 have Pagets disease
    - Most patients asymptomatic although others may have fatigue, peripheral nerve compression, pain, enlarging hat size
    - Usually polyostotic and involves multiple bones often simultaneously
  • Pagets Disease: Facts
    - Pelvis most common site of involvement followed by lumbar spine, thoracic spine, proximal femur, calvarium.
    - Complications include neoplasms like osteosarcoma, chondrosarcoma, and fractures  including insufficiency fractures

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