Diagnostic of Rotator Cuff Calcific Tendinosis Using MRI With ZTE Sequence

Not yet recruiting

• Conditions: Cuff Rotator Tendinitis
• Interventions: Diagnostic Test: MRI

• Registration Number: NCT05553535
• Lead Sponsor: Central Hospital, Nancy, France

Brief Summary

Conventional radiographs are still considered the reference for identifying rotator cuff calcific tendinosis.

MRI is widely performed for rotator cuff disorders evaluation but has a moderate accuracy in rotator cuff calcific tendinosis diagnosis and calcific deposits identification (sensitivity and specificity around 60%), even though it helps in determining acuity of the finding by adjacent soft tissue edema depiction and differential diagnosis identification (i.e. adhesive capsulitis, sub-acromial bursitis...).

Zero echo time (ZTE) MRI provides enhanced bone contrast by enabling the acquisition of signals from tissues exhibiting the shortest T2 values on a single sequence with a spatial resolution of 0.8-1.2 mm isotropic and can therefore provide images similar to those obtained with radiographs.

We hypothesize that ZTE images could also depict rotator cuff calcific tendinosis, but to our knowledge, no study compared this technique to radiographs and/or standard MRI.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2022-09
• Study First Submitted: 2022-09-19
• Study First Submitted QC: 2022-09-22
• Last Update Submitted: 2022-09-22
• Study First Posted: 2022-09-23
• Last Update Posted: 2022-09-23
• Study Start: 2022-10
• Primary Completion: 2022-10
• Study Completion: 2022-11

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 100

Inclusion Criteria

• patient referred to the imaging department for a MRI scan in case of suspicion of rotator cuff tendinosis

Exclusion Criteria

• incomplete data sets

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
witnesses	MRI	differential diagnosis or normal cases
cases	MRI	cases of rotator cuff calcific tendinosis on imaging studies

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
calcific deposits presence	Retrospective review of all MRI scans, performed at a maximum of 1 year before the reading, during two reading sessions, with an interval of 15 days, in october and november 2022	presence of signal hyperintensity within the tendon on MRI ZTE sequence