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A number of vertebral fractures in younger man as first manifestation of systemic mastocytosis.
Reumatol Clin. 2017 Mar – Apr;13(2):107-109
Authors: Carrasco Cubero C, Chamizo Carmona E
Summary
Systemic mastocytosis (SM) is a clonal illness of mast cell progenitors from the bone marrow. The medical image varies from asymptomatic types (indolent) to a extremely aggressive kind with a really brief (mast cell leukemia) survival. Between 28-34% of sufferers with SM are associated to bone situation on the time of prognosis and 16% have symptomatic fractures. The presentation of SM as medical vertebral fractures in younger males is uncommon. Right here, we describe a case of established osteoporosis as the one manifestation of SM.
PMID: 26975512 [PubMed – indexed for MEDLINE]