Osteomalacia in females

This is a descriptive study conducted in Orthopaedic unit 1, Civil Hospital Karachi from January 2000 to December 2003. Two hundred female patients were included in this series of which 128 were unmarried, 52 were multipara having more than 5 children. 128 were students. Main presenting symptoms were waddling gait and generalized body pain. Serum calcium was low in 60 patients, serum alkaline phosphatase level was elevated in all cases, serum phosphorus was below normal in 108 patients, serum P.T.H. was elevated in 108 patients. Serum vitamin D2 level was decreased in 140 patients. Loosers zone was main radiological finding noted in 130 cases