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<article xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" article-type="case-report"><?properties open_access?><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">Blood Res</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="iso-abbrev">Blood Res</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">BR</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Blood research</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2287-979X</issn><issn pub-type="epub">2288-0011</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Korean Society of Hematology; Korean Society of Blood and Marrow Transplantation; Korean Society of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology; Korean Society on Thrombosis and Hemostasis</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="pmid">25025008</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="pmc">4090342</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5045/br.2014.49.2.84</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Images of Hematology</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Osteomalacia and myelofibrosis as a manifestation of vitamin D deficiency</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Song</surname><given-names>Il-Geun</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1-br-49-84"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name><surname>Park</surname><given-names>Chan-Jeoung</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1-br-49-84"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="A1-br-49-84">Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Ulsan College of Medicine and Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea.</aff><author-notes><corresp>
Correspondence to Chan-Jeoung Park, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Ulsan College of Medicine and Asan Medical Center, 88, Olympic-ro 43-gil, Songpa-gu, Seoul 138-736, Korea, <email>cjpark@amc.seoul.kr</email></corresp></author-notes><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><month>6</month><year>2014</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>25</day><month>6</month><year>2014</year></pub-date><volume>49</volume><issue>2</issue><fpage>84</fpage><lpage>84</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>&#xA9; 2014 Korean Society of Hematology</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2014</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/"><license-p>This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/</ext-link>) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.</license-p></license></permissions></article-meta></front><body><p><graphic xlink:href="br-49-84-g001.jpg" position="float" orientation="portrait"/></p><p>Vitamin D depletion may lead to metabolic bone diseases, including osteomalacia and myelofibrosis. A 23-month-old girl received a jejunum tapering and anastomosis for small bowel atresia after birth. She was diagnosed as having short bowel syndrome at Asan Medical Center after admission for recurrent vomiting. A Broviac catheter was inserted for parenteral nutrition following discharge. During another hospitalization, she complained of a hip pain. The radiologist interpreted the magnetic resonance image as bone marrow (BM) metastasis of a small round cell tumor or hematologic malignancy. BM study showed no malignant cells, but BM biopsy revealed prominently increased osteoblasts (<bold>A</bold>, hematoxylin and eosin [H&amp;E] stain, &#xD7;400), abnormal osteoid production (<bold>B</bold>, H&amp;E stain, &#xD7;400), consistent with osteomalacia, and focal myelofibrosis (<bold>C</bold>, Masson's trichrome stain, &#xD7;400; <bold>D</bold>, reticulin stain, &#xD7;400). The laboratory test results were as follows: normal serum calcium (9.0 mg/dL), phosphorus (3.6 mg/dL), alkaline phosphatase (341 IU/L); high parathyroid hormone (PTH) (35.6 pg/mL); low 25-OH-vitamin D<sub>3</sub> (1.5 ng/mL), and low 1 alpha, 25-(OH)<sub>2</sub>-vitamin D<sub>3</sub> (71.9 pg/mL). After 2 weeks of vitamin D treatment, PTH decreased to 10.6 pg/mL, and 25-OH-vitamin D<sub>3</sub> and 1 alpha, 25-(OH)<sub>2</sub>-vitamin D<sub>3</sub> increased to 13.0 ng/mL and 84.4 pg/mL respectively, which are normal.</p></body></article>
