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Review of One Hundred Eleven Cases

J. A. ROSENKRANTZ, M.D.; JULIUS WOLF, M.D.; JOHN J. KAICHER, M.D.

AMA Arch Intern Med. 1952;90(5):610-633.

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PAGET'S disease of bone (osteitis deformans) was described in the latter part of the 19th century, although it probably existed in ancient times. Butlin¹ believed that the Neanderthal skull had the lesions of osteitis deformans. Denninger² reported the characteristic bone changes of this disease among American Indian skeletons excavated in the region of the Illinois River Valley; Fisher³ unearthed a pair of tibiae with the bone changes of osteitis deformans in the village of Lynxville in Crawford County, Wisconsin. In 1873 Czerny⁴ named the disease osteitis deformans, but it was Paget⁵ who correlated and described the clinical and pathological features. In his first report in 1876 he analyzed the cases reported by Urany in 1867 and Wilks in 1869 and added several of his own. In two later papers⁶ he reviewed data on 23 patients. Since then, the medical profession has applied the name "Paget's disease of bone" to the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
BRONX, N. Y.

From the Medical and Radiological Services, Veterans Administration Hospital, Bronx, N. Y.

Footnotes
Reviewed in the Veterans Administration and published with the approval of the Chief Medical Director. The statements and conclusions published by the authors are the result of their own study and do not necessarily reflect the opinion or policy of the Veterans Administration.