Endocrine Abstracts

Objectives: We report on a case of a 32-year-old patient with urticaria pigmentosa, the cutaneous form of mastocytosis, since the age of 13. A bone marrow biopsy revealed systemic mastocytosis disease. In 2005, after a minor trauma, the patient had an X-ray of the spine which showed a new fracture of the thoracic vertebrae 3–4. Further DXA examination of the bone mineral density showed osteoporosis (T-Score −2.8 lumbar vertebrae; right/left femur −1.0/&...