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Tumor-induced osteomalacia

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Tumor-induced osteomalacia, also known as oncogenic osteomalacia, is a rare paraneoplastic syndrome in which vitamin D resistant osteomalacia occurs due to the presence of a tumor. The following case report describes a young woman who seeks a second opinion from a rheumatologist and is found to have oncogenic osteomalacia. Not often discussed in the rheumatology literature, oncogenic osteomalacia is a rare and interesting disease entity in which diagnosis is often more challenging than treatment.

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Kaul, M., Silverberg, M., DiCarlo, E.F. et al. Tumor-induced osteomalacia. Clin Rheumatol 26, 1575–1579 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10067-006-0468-y

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