Hypophosphatemic rickets in an adolescent cured by excision of a nonossifying fibroma.
An adolescent girl complaining of chronic heel pain was found to have acquired hypophosphatemic rickets and a nonossifying fibroma of the femur. The hypophosphatemic rickets was completely corrected by surgical excision of the bone lesion. This case represents another example of tumor-induced osteomalacia.
D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D005266:Femoral Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D005350:Fibroma / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D010018:Osteomalacia / Q000209:etiology; D010710:Phosphates / Q000097:blood; D012279:Rickets / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*
D010710:Phosphates