书目名称 | Paget’s Disease of Bone | 副标题 | Clinical Assessment, | 编辑 | Frederick R. Singer (Professor of Medicine in Resi | 视频video | | 丛书名称 | Topics in bone and mineral disorders | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | Paget‘s disease is an old disease historically, but a new disease therapeutic ally. Human remains unearthed in Lancashire, England, dating from ap proximately 900 AD, show clear evidence of the aftliction. However, it was not until the 1800s that physicians rediscovered the condition, and a little more than 100 years ago that Sir James Paget published a perceptive and accurate description of the disease from the clinical and pathologic points of view. He felt the disease represented an inflammatory condition of the skeleton and hence named it osteitis deformans. The condition again lapsed into anonymity for several decades afterwards, and therapeutic approaches did not evolve until after World War II when several groups, located mainly in the Boston area, began using a variety of agents, includ ing corticosteroids for treatment of this condition. These early attempts at therapy were unsuccessful and the condition remained essentially untreat able until the development of the calcitonins and the bisphosphonates in the 1970s. In 1978, the Paget‘s Disease Foundation, a private nonprofit volun tary health agency, was founded to assist individuals aftlicted by Paget‘s disease of bo | 出版日期 | Conference proceedings 1991 | 关键词 | bisphosphonates; bone; development; education; health; inflammation; research; skeleton; steroid; steroids; th | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-2307-5 | isbn_softcover | 978-1-4684-2309-9 | isbn_ebook | 978-1-4684-2307-5 | copyright | Elsevier Science Publishing Co., Inc. 1991 |
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