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Alexandre Dias Carvalho1, Jerúsia Oliveira Ibiapina2, Lina Gomes Santos3
1Orthopedist at Hospital Sao Marcos (HSM) and the Piauí Association for Combating Cancer (APCC), Teresina, PI. Member of the Brazilian Society of Orthopedics and Traumatology.
Abstract:
A 41-year-old white female patient with complaints of lumbar pain for more than three years, without irradiation, underwent several radiological examinations. Her condition was diagnosed by means of biopsy, as monostotic Paget' s disease in the third lumbar vertebra. This is an uncommon location.
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