Paget’s Disease
I.B. Bender, DDS
A review of the signs, symptoms, and treatment of Paget’s disease is presented. Pagets, or osteitis deformans, is a chronic, progressive, bone disease of viral etiology. Recent investigations about the causative agent of this disorder have implicated the measles virus of the osteoclasts generate interleukin (iL)-6, a resorptive cytokine from the bone marrow of patients whit Paget’s bone disease.
Bender, I.B. PAGET´S DISEASE. JOE. Nov 2003;29(11):720-723
Investigated by Rita Vanessa Quintana Santiago, Student in group 2622 (2008) FES Iztacala, UNAM