Open AccessPaget's disease
Author(s) -
Talbot D.,
Lennard T. W. J.,
Brown H. G.,
Taylor R. M. R.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
british journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.202
H-Index - 201
eISSN - 1365-2168
pISSN - 0007-1323
DOI - 10.1002/bjs.1800760652
Subject(s) - medicine , disease , dermatology , pathology
Sir James Paget’s seminal description of the clinical findings of the bone disease that now bears his name in 1877 holds true today, but his reference to the disease as osteitis deformans, implying an inflammation of the bone, is not accurate, and it is now called osteodystrophia deformans.