NCT00682409

Magnetic Resonance (MR) Imaging in the Post Operative Follow-up of Cholesteatoma in Children

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 37 (actual)
• Sponsor: Assistance Publique Hopitaux De Marseille · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 5 Years – 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Classical imaging techniques are inaccurate to detect residual cholesteatoma. The aim of our study is to evaluate the value of diffusion-weighted MR imaging and delayed contrast enhanced T1 weighted spin-echo sequences in the detection of residual cholesteatoma in children, in a large serie of surgically verified cases.

Detailed description

Classical imaging techniques are inaccurate to detect residual cholesteatoma. Thin-section CT detects that the postoperative cavity is filled with a soft tissue mass. Classical MR imaging (T2 and T1 weighted spin-echo sequences) can not provide additionnal information about the nature of this filling : cholesteatoma, granulation or fibrous tissue.

Conditions

• Cholesteatoma

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	MR Imaging	MR imaging in the post operative follow-up of cholesteatoma in children

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-01-01
• Primary completion: 2011-04-01
• Completion: 2011-04-01
• First posted: 2008-05-22
• Last updated: 2014-08-28

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France