Paget's disease
Ali S. M. Jawad and J. David Perry
Corresponding address: Ali S. M. Jawad, Department of
Rheumatology, The Royal London Hospital, Bancroft Road, London
E1 4DG, UK
E-mail: alismjawad1@hotmail.com
Abstract
Sir James Paget's seminal description of the
clinical findings of the bone disease that now bears his name
in 1877 holds true today, but his reference to the disease as
osteitis deformans, implying an inflammation of the bone, is not
accurate, and it is now called osteodystrophia deformans.
Paget’s original case report is reproduced
here, together with photographs of Paget’s first case, which
are linked to the publication by the addendum of the correct reference.
The photographs are from the pathology museum of St Bartholomew’s
Hospital, and we believe that this is the first time that the
photographs and the case report have been published together.
We are grateful to the pathology museum at St Bartholomew’s
Hospital for permission to post up the photographs, and we would
like to thank the medical photography department at St Bartholomew’s
Hospital for their kind help.
Key words
Paget's disease.
