Diagnostic of Rotator Cuff Calcific Tendinosis Using MRI With ZTE Sequence

Central Hospital, Nancy, France

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Cuff Rotator Tendinitis

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: MRI

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05553535

N°1-RCB/EUDRACT

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Enrollment: 100 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

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

Trial design

100 participants in 2 patient groups

cases

Description:

cases of rotator cuff calcific tendinosis on imaging studies

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: MRI

witnesses

Description:

differential diagnosis or normal cases

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: MRI