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Record W4410698653 · doi:10.1136/bcr-2024-263622

Tumour-induced osteomalacia due to a rare intrathoracic phosphaturic mesenchymal tumour

2025· article· en· W4410698653 on OpenAlexaff
Lauren Ka-Po Law, John B. O’Connell, Andrew H.S. Lee, Sharon Ong

Bibliographic record

VenueBMJ Case Reports · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicParathyroid Disorders and Treatments
Canadian institutionsSurrey Memorial HospitalRoyal Columbian HospitalFraser HealthUniversity of British ColumbiaMemorial University of Newfoundland
Fundersnot available
KeywordsOsteomalaciaMedicineHistopathologyHypophosphatemiaFibroblast growth factor 23RadiologyPathologySurgeryInternal medicineOsteoporosis

Abstract

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Phosphaturic mesenchymal tumours (PMTs) are rare neoplasms that secrete fibroblast growth factor 23 (FGF23), a hormone that disrupts phosphate homeostasis and induces tumour-induced osteomalacia (TIO). This condition causes hypophosphataemia, bone pain, fractures and musculoskeletal weakness. Due to the non-specific nature of these symptoms, TIO is often misdiagnosed with treatment delays. Surgical resection of PMTs is curative with rapid normalisation of serum phosphorus and full symptom resolution. PMTs are often located in the extremities and axial skeleton but can also occur in less common areas such as the intrathoracic region. We report a case of an intrathoracic PMT in a young woman who suffered for over 2 years without a diagnosis. The PMT was identified on CT, MRI and fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography and confirmed by histopathology. The tumour was excised via combined video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery and posterior thoracic resection. Within 6 months, the patient experienced complete symptom resolution and normalised serum levels.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Case report · Consensus signal: Case report
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.004
Threshold uncertainty score0.009

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0040.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.019
GPT teacher head0.336
Teacher spread0.317 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designCase report
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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