[Paget disease of the jaws. Review of the subject. Clinical-therapeutic considerations]

Minerva Stomatol. 1996 Jul-Aug;45(7-8):349-54.
[Article in Italian]

Abstract

Clinical and diagnostic findings of Paget's disease of the jaws are reported; up to date etiological and pathogenical hypotheses are presented. Laboratory data of increased P.A. as a marker of disease evolution is pointed out, particularly the relationship increasing hydroxyprolinuria, because the increase of a malignant transformation. Surgery, always modeling, is limited to cases of severe facial dysmorphosis associated or not with the local disturbance due to compression; in any case it is suggested to perform the surgery in the phases of inactivity of disease, to avoid local complications, such as hemorrhage a infection.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Calcitonin / therapeutic use
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Jaw Diseases / diagnosis
  • Jaw Diseases / drug therapy
  • Jaw Diseases / surgery*
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Organophosphonates / therapeutic use
  • Osteitis Deformans / diagnosis
  • Osteitis Deformans / drug therapy
  • Osteitis Deformans / surgery*
  • Radiography
  • Skull / diagnostic imaging

Substances

  • Organophosphonates
  • Calcitonin