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Added Value of Sonoelastography in Assessment of Traumatic and Non Traumatic Supraspinatus Tendinopathy and Tear Compared with Magnetic Resonance Imaging

ConditionSupraspinatus Injury
Trial statusNot yet recruiting
Trial phaseNot listed
Trial typeObservational
Biological sexAll
Age18+
SponsorAssiut University

About this trial

Primary Aims:

To assess the value of sonoelastography in the evaluation of supraspinatus tendon abnormalities.

Secondary Aims:

1. To assess the association between SWE and grades of tendon abnormalities on MRI (the standard imaging in the evaluation of rotator cuff abnormalities). 2. To help in reaching shear wave elastography cutoff value to determine tendinopathy and tear.

Eligibility criteria

This trial does not accept healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

Patients with shoulder pain either due to traumatic or non traumatic causes

Age > 18 year

Disqualifiers

History of operative intervention for rotator cuff tendons,

Signs of calcific tendinopathy on MRI or ultrasound (as calcification causes artifact on obtaining SWE results and the measured velocities were exceeding the velocity scale on our device),

Patients with general contraindications to MRI as patients with pacemakers

Trial population

Patients with shoulder pain either due to traumatic or non traumatic causes referred to our radiology department for assessment of rotator cuff muscles.

Trial design

Design model

Cohort

Time perspective

Cross-sectional

Treatments tested in this trial

  • sonoelastography

    Device

    Sonoelastography examination\[10,11\] will be performed using (GE logiqs8,) device system with a high-frequency (a 5-12 MHz linearMHz) linear probe. The procedure will be carried out by a radiologist , who is blinded to the MRI results. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) \[12\] will be performed on the patients in our radiology department using a Philips Achieva 1.5 Tesla superconducting magnet (The Netherlands), shoulder joint MRI protocol included several imaging sequences, included coronal oblique T1 and T2 weighted fast spin-echo, coronal oblique proton density fat suppressed, oblique sagittal T2-weighted spin-echo and axial T1-weighted spin-echo Image evaluation will be conducted by experienced musculoskeletal radiologist, Then we correlate results of sonoelastography to that of MRI .

Treatment groups

No treatment groups listed

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

1

To assess the value of sonoelastography in the evaluation of supraspinatus tendon abnormalities

Assess the value of sonoelastography in evaluation of supraspinatus tendinopathy and tear in comparison with Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Time frame
2 year

Secondary outcomes

1

1. To assess the association between share wave elastography and grades of tendon abnormalities on MRI (the standard imaging in the evaluation of rotator cuff abnormalities).

Time frame
2 year
2

2. To help in reaching shear wave elastography cutoff value to determine tendinopathy and tear

Time frame
2 year

Other outcomes

Locations

This trial has no locations.

Sponsors and contacts

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Assiut University

Lead sponsor

Source ClinicalTrials.gov

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