Axial osteomalacia explained

Field:	orthopedic

Axial osteomalacia is a rare osteosclerotic disorder characterized by axial skeleton pain, coarsening of the trabecular bone pattern on radiographs of the axial but not appendicular skeleton.^[1]

Notes and References

1. Whyte MP, Fallon MD, Murphy WA, Teitelbaum SL . Axial osteomalacia. Clinical, laboratory and genetic investigation of an affected mother and son . . 71 . 6 . 1041–9 . December 1981 . 7315848 . 10.1016/0002-9343(81)90338-7.