ABSTRACT
Paget's osteodystrophia deformans is a monoostotic or polyostotic disease of the skeletal system with increased bone remodelling, structural modifications and skeletal deformation, typically arranged like a chessboard. The unusual case of a patient is described who had suffered from generalized Paget's disease of the bone for 14 years and also developed progressive myopathy and a behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia. Further cytogenetic diagnostics revealed a point mutation in the valosin-containing protein (VCP, p97) gene on chromosome 9p13-p12 consistent with the finding of inclusion body myopathy with early onset Paget's disease and frontotemporal dementia (IBMPFD syndrome). A causal therapy of this disease is not known. Conservative treatment with bisphosphonate therapy, intensive physiotherapeutic exercise and psychotherapeutic treatment was performed to retard the progression of the disease.
