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Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, 1959;41:1327-1333.
© 1959 by The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc

Transitory Demineralization of the Hip in Pregnancy

A Report of Three Cases

Paul H. Curtiss Jr. M.D.1 and William E. Kincaid M.D.1

1 Departments of Orthopaedic Surgery and Radiology, University Hospitals, Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland

Three cases have been presented of a syndronme occurring in pregnant women. This syndrome is characterized by pain of varying severity in one or both hips or thighs and develops in the last trimester of pregnancy. Roentgenograms show a spotty demineralization with sharply localized margins, involving one or both femoral heads, a small part of the femoral neck, and the acetabulum. In each of the three patients, the pain subsided and the roentgenographic appearance returned to normal within several months after delivery.

We do not know the cause of this syndrome, but suspect it to be of neurogenic origin.


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