Migratory transient osteoporosis: atypical migration to the bilateral knee after childbirth
Gülnur Tasçı Bozbaş 1 ,Gülcan Gürer 1 ,Ömer Faruk Şendur 1 ,Aslı Gül Alkan 1
1 Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Medical Faculty of Adnan Menderes University, Aydın, Turkey
DOI :
10.5606/tftrd.2016.01709
Transient osteoporosis is a rare disorder, characterized by bone marrow edema. It is particularly seen in the last trimester of the pregnancy
and remission occurs spontaneously at the postpartum period. This disorder frequently affects the hip joint, while it may rarely migrate to
the knee, ankle, and the foot joints. In this article, we report a 35-year-old female case who had transient osteoporosis of the hip at the last
trimester of her pregnancy and showed migration to the bilateral knee after childbirth. While spontaneous recovery of the disorder in the
postpartum period was expected, transient osteoporosis interestingly advanced to her knee joints in our case. To the best of our knowledge,
this is the first case of the migration of transient osteoporosis to the knee joint in the postpartum period.
Keywords :
Bilateral knee; pregnancy; regional migratory osteoporosis; transient bone marrow edema; transient osteoporosis
