Medical Imaging Characteristics of Patient With Unclassified Acute Cervical Pain

Carotidynia Clinical Trial

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Official title:

Medical Imaging Characteristics of Patient With Unclassified Acute Cervical Pain

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03690882
• Other study ID #: CE_20151117_21_ALR
• Status: Completed
• Start date: November 1, 2015
• Est. completion date: March 1, 2016

Study information

• Verified date: September 2018
• Source: Fondation Ophtalmologique Adolphe de Rothschild
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Some cases of acute antero-lateral cervical pain cannot be accurately classified by medical imaging (ultrasound and/or magnetic resonance imaging and/or CT-scan) : imaging rules out carotid dissection, carotid occlusion or vasculitis as well as musculoskeletal causes and thus the pain is considered "of unknown origin".

The investigators hypothesize that in such cases perivascular inflammation of the carotid may be involved.

This study aims at systematically reviewing medical files (including imaging) of patients suffering from acute cervical pain in which carotid dissection, carotid occlusion or vasculitis as well as musculoskeletal causes have been ruled out by ultrasound and/or magnetic resonance imaging and/or CT-scan

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 47
• Est. completion date: March 1, 2016
• Est. primary completion date: March 1, 2016
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Adult patient with acute cervical pain

• Presence of at least one medical imaging modality of the neck : ultrasound with doppler imaging, magnetic resonance imaging, CT-scan

• Medical imaging of the neck includes dedicated vessel analysis

• Absence of definite diagnosis for the cause of the pain after imaging

Exclusion Criteria:

• Musculoskeletal cause of the pain

• Carotid dissection

• Carotid occlusion

• Carotid vasculitis

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Carotidynia
• Neck Pain

Intervention

Other:
• systematic review of medical imaging

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
France	Fondation Ophtalmologique A. de Rotchschild	Paris

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Fondation Ophtalmologique Adolphe de Rothschild

Country where clinical trial is conducted

France, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Proportion of cases with perivascular inflammation of the carotid on medical imaging		Within 2 weeks after the first consultation for acute cervical pain