MULTIPLE STRESS FRACTURES SIMULATING OSTEOMALACIA

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Abstract
At the age of 35 years, a man with previous good health was found to have several pseudofractures. Further pseudofractures appeared over the next 3 years without apparent cause. The symmetry and number of these lesions suggested that he was suffering from osteomalacia but biochemical and histologic study failed to confirm this. It is concluded that a condition of "multiple spontaneous idiopathic symmetrical fractures" does exist.