Secondary osteoporosis: case histories |
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| Authors: | Clive A Kelly MD FRCP |
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| Affiliation: | Clive A Kelly MD FRCP is Consultant Physician and Rheumatologist at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead, UK. He qualified in Newcastle upon Tyne, and has worked in the South West and the West Midlands. His research interests include systemic disease in rheumatology. |
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| Abstract: | It is important to identify secondary causes of osteoporosis, as treatment often tends to partial recovery of bone mass. This short contribution offers two case studies. The first case study is a 62-year-old widow, who was a regular attender at her family practitioner's surgery, complaining of back pain and diarrhoea. The second case study is a 72-year-old white woman with a 20-year history of rheumatoid arthritis presenting with a 2-week history of mid-thoracic back pain of spontaneous onset. A discussion of the cases is reported, followed by a clinical diagnosis. |
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| Keywords: | bone osteoporosis case study diagnosis |
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