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Muscle mass assessments by ultrasound and computed tomography

Not Applicable
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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