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Common Variants and Pitfalls: Paget’s Disease

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Paget’s disease is a common disorder causing focal areas of increased and disorganized bone turnover. Its appearance on imaging can be mistaken for osteosclerotic bone metastases, osteosarcoma, or lymphoma, but careful assessment of the features on CT greatly assist in differentiating Paget’s disease from malignancy.

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  1. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Antwerp University Hospital, Edegem, Belgium

    Tim Van den Wyngaert

  2. Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (MICA – IPPON), University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium

    Tim Van den Wyngaert

  3. Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Luzerner Kantonsspital, Lucerne, Switzerland

    Klaus Strobel

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  1. Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium

    Tim Van den Wyngaert

  2. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

    Gopinath Gnanasegaran

  3. Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Luzerner Kantonsspital, Lucerne, Switzerland

    Klaus Strobel

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    Gopinath Gnanasegaran

  2. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Antwerp University Hospital, Edegem, Belgium

    Tim Van den Wyngaert

  3. Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (MICA–IPPON), University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium

    Tim Van den Wyngaert

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Van den Wyngaert, T., Strobel, K. (2023). Common Variants and Pitfalls: Paget’s Disease. In: Van den Wyngaert, T., Gnanasegaran, G., Strobel, K. (eds) Clinical Atlas of Bone SPECT/CT. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26449-8_86

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