NCT03950323

Intra-parotid Facial Nerve Tractography

Intra-parotid Facial Nerve by MRI Tractography: Clinical vs Radiologic Description in Parotid Tumors

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (estimated)
• Sponsor: CHU de Reims · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The aim of the study is to evaluate concordance between the facial nerve's path in the parotid evaluated by radiologist in preoperatively and the facial nerve's path in the parotid evaluated by surgeon in peroperatively.

Detailed description

Surgery is the main treatment for parotid tumol, benign or malignant pathologies. The procedure requires a trunk search and a facial nerve dissection along its intraparotid length. This intervention entails a risk of facial paralysis. MRI tractography is a new imaging technique that can characterize nerve fibers and their path. The interest would be to allow the surgeon to best prepare the parotidectomy by locating the tumor in relation to the trunk and all the branches of the facial nerve.

Conditions

• Parotid Tumor

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
RADIATION	MRI with Facial nerve tractography	MRI with Facial nerve tractography in addition to T1 imaging, T1 gadolinium imaging and T2 imaging.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-06-24
• Primary completion: 2020-12-24
• Completion: 2021-06-24
• First posted: 2019-05-15
• Last updated: 2020-04-14

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France