SEVERE OSTEOPENIA IN CONGENITAL ERYTHROPOIETIC PORPHYRIA

Authors
LAORR A GREENSPAN A
Citation
A. Laorr et A. Greenspan, SEVERE OSTEOPENIA IN CONGENITAL ERYTHROPOIETIC PORPHYRIA, Canadian Association of Radiologists journal, 45(4), 1994, pp. 307-309
Citations number
5
Categorie Soggetti
Radiology,Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
Journal title
Canadian Association of Radiologists journal → ACNP
ISSN journal
08465371
Volume
45
Issue
4
Year of publication
1994
Pages
307 - 309
Database
ISI
SICI code
0846-5371(1994)45:4<307:SOICEP>2.0.ZU;2-Q
Abstract
Congenital erythropoietic porphyria is a rare disorder of porphyrin me tabolism. The authors describe a 15-year-old boy in whom the radiologi c manifestations of this disorder included the known features of osteo penia, acroosteolysis, soft-tissue calcifications and widening of the diploic space, as well as the previously unreported findings of severe vertebral compression fractures, thoracic kyphosis, and ''salt and pe pper'' skull.