Osteoporosis and pathologic fractures in anorexia nervosa
- 1 April 1985
- journal article
- case report
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 142 (4), 495-496
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.4.495
Abstract
Osteoporosis with pathologic fractures occurred in three patients with chronic anorexia nervosa. The authors discuss the pathophysiology of this rarely reported complication and advise clinicians to thoroughly investigate complaints of bone or back pain from this high-risk population.Keywords
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