title: Mast cell leukaemia presenting with multiple osteoporotic fractures in an elderly woman.
abstract: Osteoporotic fractures in elderly women are mainly due to postmenopausal bone loss but can sometimes be caused by a disabling haematological disease. We describe an 84-year-old woman suffering from multiple osteoporotic fractures as a manifestation of mast cell leukaemia. Mast cell leukaemia is a rare form of systemic mastocytosis with a poor prognosis and very few therapeutic options. Osteoporotic fractures have seldom been reported as its initial manifestation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Deventer Hospital, Deventer, the Netherlands.
authors.forename: S E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: de Boer
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hoogenberg
authors.forename: N K
authors.initials: NK
authors.lastname: de Boer
mesh_terms: D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007946:Leukemia, Mast-Cell / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D058866:Osteoporotic Fractures / Q000175:diagnosis*