Dual-echo and Inversion Recovery Magnetic Resonance Imaging Pulse Sequences in Diagnosis of Temporomandibular Disorders. Diagnostic Accuracy Study

Cairo University (CU)

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Temporomandibular Joint Disorders

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: Dual echo MRI sequence

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04348331

ORAD 7:1:1

Details and patient eligibility

About

In the present study, investigators are going to investigate the potential of inversion recovery (fluid attenuated inversion recovery -FLAIR and short-TI Inversion Recovery -STIR) sequence images to demonstrate joint effusion, compared to T2-weighted images.

Enrollment: 27 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 15 to 40 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients with pain related to temporomandibular joint.
• Patients with limited mouth opening.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients with pain related to temporomandibular joint for less than one month duration.
• Patients with limited mouth opening for less than one month duration.
• Patients with history of TMJ surgical intervention.
• Patients with history of TMJ arthrocentesis.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: Single Blind