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A 75-year-old man has complained of lower back pain for 8 years. As part of a workup for a persistently elevated lymphocytosis, he has a right posterior iliac crest biopsy performed. On microscopic examination hematopoiesis is normal, but the bone spicules are thickened with irregular cement lines forming a mosaic appearance with both increased osteoblastic and osteoclastic activity. Which of the following conditions is most likely to occur in conjunction with his underlying disease process?

A Dementia
B Myelofibrosis
C Hepatic cirrhosis
D Chronic renal failure
E Congestive heart failure


  #2

D?

  #3

wht's the condition he's got?

  #4

Has been tested on quite often...

  #5

high output cardiac failure due to inc. blood flow through the pagetoid bone, there, CHF

good Q ....

  #6

yup..its paget's n the ans is E...gud q though

  #7

good question

  #8

yes, E..







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