TY - JOUR T1 - Osteomalacia with severe thoracic and spondylous deformity complicated by osteoporosis JF - BMJ Case Reports DO - 10.1136/bcr.04.2011.4127 VL - 2011 SP - bcr0420114127 AU - Fumiko Yokota AU - Tsutomu Yamada AU - Chinatsu Matsunaga AU - Hiroko Okazaki AU - Takashi Tominaga AU - Yuko Yambe AU - Yasuhisa Kato AU - Yoriko Funahashi AU - Atsushi Suzuki Y1 - 2011/07/20 UR - http://casereports.bmj.com/content/2011/bcr.04.2011.4127.abstract N2 - A 60-year-old woman was admitted to our emergency department with respiratory distress. Her thorax had undergone gradual deformation over the past 3 years during which time she had refused to seek medical intervention. Her ADL (activities of daily living) had been full and she had worked as a dancing instructor before her thorax began to change shape. On admission, she was alert, but had severe dyspnoea with low arterial oxygen saturation. Chest x-ray, CT (figure 1 … ER -