Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Paget’s disease of the bone is a rare endocrine disease especially among Africans and Asians. Hence the detection of a case in a middle-aged Nigerian is of interest.Case presentation: A 62-year-old Nigerian man in apparent good health was found to have markedly elevated alkaline phosphatase (ALP) of 1179 U/l during a routine medical check-up. He had no history suggestive of Paget’s disease of the bone and also had no known family ...