Abstract
Bone marrow edema syndrome (BMES) is an uncommon disease of the hip, which causes an acute disabling hip pain. It is a self-limiting disease, which regresses spontaneously within several months. In 1892, Hanau first described osteomalacia of the hip due to vitamin D deficiency during pregnancy [1]. In 1959, Curtiss and Kincaid reported three cases of transitory demineralization of the hip in pregnancy [2]. In 1968, Hunder and Kelly used the term “transient osteoporosis of the hip” because of the focal loss of radiodensity in the affected femoral head and its later spontaneous recovery [3].
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Lee, YK., Koo, KH. (2014). Bone Marrow Edema Syndrome of the Hip. In: Koo, KH., Mont, M., Jones, L. (eds) Osteonecrosis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35767-1_30
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