Paget Disease: New Insights for the Healthcare Professional: 2011 Edition is a ScholarlyPaper™ that delivers timely, authoritative, and intensively focused information about Paget Disease in a compact format.

This book summarizes the molecular and cellular aspects of Paget's disease, a bone disease which is thought to be caused by a viral infection and can occasionally lead to such fatal complications as osteosarcoma.

Paget’s disease is a chronic metabolic disorder of unknown aetiology that affects the skeleton.

This book serves as a useful volume for basic scientists, graduate students, and practicing clinicians in understanding the pathobiology, etiology, and treatment of this disease.

Paget's Disease: New Insights for the Healthcare Professional: 2011 Edition is a ScholarlyPaper™ that delivers timely, authoritative, and intensively focused information about Paget's Disease in a compact format.

Comprised of 12 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the physiology of bone, with emphasis on the structures produced by bone cells and the different hormones that influence them.

The authors, all accomplished and world-renowned experts in their topic areas, have provided controversial and up-to-date accounts of the current status of research in calcium and bone metabolism by reviewing major areas of basic science ...

In addition, the marrow microenviron- ment is also abnormal in Paget's disease. These data suggest that the initial pathologic event that occurs in Paget's disease affects the osteoclast precursor, as well as the mature osteoclast.