Osteomalacia in Kashmir

Kashmir

Bengal Medical Service. ( Continued from page 209.) People.?The Kashmiris are a remarkably handsome and physically robust race. Their physique, character form a very marked contrast to the rest of the races of British India. Kashmiris proper may be divided into Mahomedans and the " Pundits," who are the Hindu remainder, who have escaped conversion into Mahomedanism. They are all Brahmans. The M...

Osteomalacia in rheumatoid arthritis.

Fifty-four patients with rheumatoid arthritis and severe osteomalacia were found to have considerable bone and general deficiency problems. In 46 of them 14 stress fractures occurred and 32 minimal trauma fractures necessitating admission to hospital. Radiological abnormalities of absorption were found in nearly 25% of the total, implying that dietary factors alone are not always responsible fo...

Subtrochanteric fractures in osteomalacia.

Oncogenic osteomalacia

Severe osteomalacia (confirmed by the examination of thin undecalcified bone biopsy sections) associated with hypophosphataemia developed in a 60 year old woman. A skeletal x-ray survey showed a lytic lesion in the right proximal femur, and this was curetted, showing a vascular tumour. The patient's symptoms improved almost immediately and serum phosphate concentrations returned to normal. Some...

Oncogenic osteomalacia.

Severe osteomalacia (confirmed by the examination of thin undecalcified bone biopsy sections) associated with hypophosphataemia developed in a 60 year old woman. A skeletal x-ray survey showed a lytic lesion in the right proximal femur, and this was curetted, showing a vascular tumour. The patient's symptoms improved almost immediately and serum phosphate concentrations returned to normal. Some...