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Musculoskeletal Diseases > Bone Diseases > Osteitis Deformans

Preferred term

Osteitis Deformans  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Osseous Paget's Disease
  • Paget Disease, Bone
  • Paget Disease of Bone
  • Pagets Disease, Bone
  • Paget's Disease of Bone

Scope note

  • A disease marked by repeated episodes of increased bone resorption followed by excessive attempts at repair, resulting in weakened, deformed bones of increased mass. The resultant architecture of the bone assumes a mosaic pattern in which the fibers take on a haphazard pattern instead of the normal parallel symmetry.

In other languages

  • Finnish

  • morbus Paget
  • määrittämätön Pagetin luutauti
  • osteitis deformans
  • osteitis deformans Paget
  • osteitis deformans Paget non specificata
  • Paget
  • Swedish

  • Pagets bensjukdom

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D010001

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