Muscle mass assessments by ultrasound and computed tomography
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- Conditions
- Patients admitted in the IC
- Registration Number
- JPRN-UMIN000044032
- Lead Sponsor
- Tokushima University Hospital
- Brief Summary
The patient mean age was 72 years, and 60 patients (67%) were male. The correlation between the femoral muscle ultrasound and CT was 0.57 (p < 0.01, n = 89) and 0.48 (p < 0.01, n = 89) for quadriceps muscle layer thickness and rectus femoris muscle CSA, and these had the discriminative power to assess low muscularity, with the areas under the curve of 0.84 and 0.76.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete: follow-up complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 89
Inclusion Criteria
Not provided
Exclusion Criteria
primary neuromuscular disease, obstacle at the ultrasound measurement site
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
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- Secondary Outcome Measures
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