title: A comparison of the amount of vascularity in pagetic and normal human bone.
abstract: The lower extremity of a patient with Paget's disease of the proximal femur was infused with contrast medium after hemipelvectomy. Cross sectional specimens were computer analyzed to compare quantitatively the microvascularity of the proximal femoral pagetic bone to the distal femoral normal bone. The pagetic bone contained nearly six times more contrast per cross sectional area (28%) than the normal bone (5%).
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville.
authors.forename: K M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Rongstad
authors.forename: D L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Wheeler
authors.forename: W F
authors.initials: WF
authors.lastname: Enneking
mesh_terms: D000792:Angiography; D005269:Femur / Q000098:blood supply* / Q000473:pathology; D006428:Hemipelvectomy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008833:Microcirculation; D008875:Middle Aged; D010001:Osteitis Deformans / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*; D010384:Pelvic Bones / Q000601:surgery; D012509:Sarcoma / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery