Paget's Disease of Bone

References

Citations

  1. Jan de Beur SM (2007). Disorders of bone and mineral metabolism: Hypocalcemia, hypercalcemia, osteomalacia, male osteoporosis, Paget disease of bone. In LR Barker et al., eds., Principles of Ambulatory Medicine, 7th ed., pp. 1437–1453. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.

  2. Lane N, Leboff MS (2005). Paget's disease of bone section of Metabolic bone diseases. In ED Harris Jr et al., eds., Kelley's Textbook of Rheumatology, 7th ed., vol. 2, pp. 1487–1490. Philadelphia: Elsevier Saunders.

  3. Altman RD (2005). Paget's disease of bone. In WJ Koopman, LW Moreland, eds., Arthritis and Allied Conditions: A Textbook of Rheumatology, 15th ed., vol. 2, pp. 2543–2557. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.

Other Works Consulted

  • National Institutes of Health Osteoporosis and Related Bone Diseases National Resource Center (2006). Paget's disease of bone. Available online: http://www.niams.nih.gov/bone/paget.htm.


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