Mesenteric Panniculitis : Review of Consecutive Abdominal MDCT Examinations With a Matched-pair Analysis (MP - Cancer)

CHU de Reims

Status: Completed

Conditions: Mesenteric Panniculitis

Treatments: Other: Review of multidetector row computed tomography scans

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03316001

2016Ao002

Details and patient eligibility

About

Mesenteric panniculitis is a benign inflammatory condition that involves the adipose tissue of the intestinal mesentery. Clinical manifestations are uncommon, non specific and atypical. Mesenteric panniculitis is thus most often an incidental finding during an investigation for other reason, mostly on computed tomography scans. The rate of malignancy in patients with mesenteric panniculitis, especially urogenital and gastrointestinal adenocarcinomas or lymphomas, has been reported to be as high, thus suggesting that there may be a relationship between mesenteric panniculitis and progression of an underlying malignancy or the risk of a future malignancy.

Full description

The aim was:

to estimate the prevalence of mesenteric panniculitis. to study relationship between mesenteric panniculitis and malignancy. to investigate the 5-year outcome of patients with mesenteric panniculitis for the development of malignancy.

Enrollment: 288 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients with a CT scan from January to August 2008
• Patients with diagnosis of mesenteric panniculitis on CT scan

Exclusion criteria

• Patients with disease that may cause mesenteric infiltration

Trial design

288 participants in 2 patient groups

cases

Description:

patients with a CT scan from January to August 2008 for which mesenteric panniculitis was diagnosed

Treatment:

Other: Review of multidetector row computed tomography scans

controls

Description:

patients with a CT scan from January to August 2008 for which mesenteric panniculitis wasn't diagnosed and matched by gender and age with "cases" patients

Treatment:

Other: Review of multidetector row computed tomography scans