title: Paget's disease of bone and its complications due to delay in diagnosis.
abstract: Paget's disease of bone is an osteometabolic focal disease characterized by defects in bone remodeling. It may be asymptomatic, but often is associated with bone pain, deformity, pathological fracture, secondary osteoarthrosis and deafness. The diagnosis is usually made by radiological and laboratory findings. This report describes a male patient, 74 years old, native of Amazon, without European ancestry, with polyostotic Paget's disease, with clinical, radiological and laboratory diagnosis after 30 years of disease. The authors emphasize several complications of Paget's disease due to delayed diagnosis and the rarity of the disease in this population group.
authors: Hospital Universitário Getúlio Vargas, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Manaus/AM, Brazil.
authors: Lorena Penha
authors: LP
authors: Almeida
authors: Juliana Alves
authors: JA
authors: Scrignoli
authors: Simone Castro
authors: SC
authors: Santos
authors: Luiz Fernando
authors: LF
authors: Passos
authors: Sandra Lúcia
authors: SL
authors: Ribeiro
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D057210:Delayed Diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010001:Osteitis Deformans / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis*