Added Value of Sonoelastography in Assessment of Traumatic and Non Traumatic Supraspinatus Tendinopathy and Tear Compared with Magnetic Resonance Imaging
NCT ID: NCT06803303
Last Updated: 2025-01-31
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Basic Information
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NOT_YET_RECRUITING
43 participants
OBSERVATIONAL
2025-03-01
2027-04-30
Brief Summary
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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.
Detailed Description
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Rotator cuff abnormalities one of the important causes that can cause chronic shoulder pain , discomfort and lead to a lack of stability of the shoulder joint\[1\].The supraspinatus tendon is one of rotator cuff muscle that commonly affected as it anatomically traverses between two bones (the acromion process and humeral head),its pathology including tendinopathy and tearing whether its partial or complete.
Clinical examination and imaging modalities as ultrasound and MRI are needed for proper diagnosis of supraspinatus pathology .
Ultrasonography used as primary modality compared to MRI which considered gold standard of non invasive investigations as ultrasound is an cheap, available, noninvasive, repeatable and reliable modality for rotator cuff assessment with accuracy reaching 100% in the diagnosis of full-thickness tears and 91% for partial-thickness tears, on ultrasound, tendinopathy appears as thickening of the tendon showing a heterogeneous hypoechoic pattern. Tendon tear appears as a hypoechoic defect within the tendon, not involving the tendon's full thickness in PTT and involving the full tendon thickness in FTT , however, diagnosis of tendinopathy may be challenging with the conventional US as the echogenicity of the affected tendon may appear similar to that of the healthy one, especially in early stages of tendinopathy.
Sonoelastography (SE) is a new US imaging technique that allows non invasive estimation of tissue stiffness and elasticity. It is based on the fact that tissue compression produces displacement within the tissue, which is less in hard than in soft tissue \[8\], In addition possibility of using share wave elastography which allow to assess tissue stiffness by measuring the propagation speed of shear waves in the body. It is primarily used to evaluate the stiffness of tissues such as muscles, liver, and tendons, aiding in differentiation between the diseased and normal tissue, as tendon softening in cases of tendinopathy, resulting in a reduction in the velocity of propagation of shear waves compared to the healthy tendons that are stiff, so elastography may be helpful in the early detection of tendinopathy before alteration in tendon echogenicity or thickness appear on the conventional US. And provides qualitative as well as quantitative assessment of tendon quality through alteration in the tissue composition.
Conditions
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Keywords
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Study Design
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COHORT
CROSS_SECTIONAL
Interventions
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sonoelastography
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 .
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* Age \> 18 year
Exclusion Criteria
* 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
18 Years
ALL
No
Sponsors
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Assiut University
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Hossam Hassan Sayed
doctor
Central Contacts
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Hossam Hassan Sayed Hammad, Resident doctor
Role: CONTACT
Phone: 01008933979
Email: [email protected]
Hossam El-din Galal M Elmalah, Assisstant Professor
Role: CONTACT
Phone: 01014269335
Email: [email protected]
References
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Amr A. Elfattah Hassan Gadalla, Gehad Ramadan Hassanein, Hatem Mohammed Saeed El Azizy, Walid Reda Mohammed & Neiven Ezzat Mohammed Elliethy ,Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine volume 54, Article number: 37 (2023) Cite this articl
Reem A. Frere a, Ibrahim Libda a, Fathy Tantawy a, Hossam M. Sakr b, Ali T. El-Alfy, Sonoelastography, conventional ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging in detection of rotator cuff lesions in patients with chronic shoulder pain, The Egyptian Rheumatologist,Volume 43, Issue 1, January 2021, Pages 17-21
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Seo JB, Yoo JS, Ryu JW. Sonoelastography findings of supraspinatus tendon in rotator cuff tendinopathy without tear: comparison with magnetic resonance images and conventional ultrasonography. J Ultrasound. 2014 Dec 7;18(2):143-9. doi: 10.1007/s40477-014-0148-8. eCollection 2015 Jun.
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Other Identifiers
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supraspinatus sonoelastography
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id