title: Monostotic Paget's disease involving the calcaneus encountered incidentally on bone scintigraphy.
abstract: Isolated involvement of calcaneus with Paget's disease of bone is highly unusual, with very few cases reported in the world literature. We present herein a unique 69-year-old male patient with monostotic Paget's disease of the left calcaneus discovered incidentally during a whole body bone scintigraphy. Since most bone scans are performed for evaluating osseous metastases, differentiating Paget's disease from overlapping metastases may be of significant clinical value. We discuss further the importance of whole body bone scan and other imaging modalities in establishing the correct diagnoses in such cases.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, The University of Arizona Medical Center, Tucson, AZ 85724, USA. codrion@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Ion
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Codreanu
authors.forename: Esther
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Lim
authors.forename: Constantin A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Dasanu
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002111:Calcaneus / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D033162:Incidental Findings; D008297:Male; D010001:Osteitis Deformans / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D051598:Whole Body Imaging