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