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NCT Number: NCT03316001

Mesenteric Panniculitis : Review of Consecutive Abdominal MDCT Examinations With a Matched-pair Analysis

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.

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Key information

Conditions

Mesenteric Panniculitis Connective Tissue Diseases Digestive System Diseases Panniculitis Panniculitis, Peritoneal Peritoneal Diseases Skin and Connective Tissue Diseases

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

About this study

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.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

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

Treatment and study plan

Review of multidetector row computed tomography scans

Other

multidetector row computed tomography scans

Primary outcomes

  1. mesenteric panniculitis

    Time frame: Day 0

    mesenteric panniculitis is identified on the basis on the presence of three of the following 5 signs on CT scan:

    • higher attenuation of the fat of the root of the small bowel mesentery,
    • a pseudo mass smoothly displacing neighboring structures with a hyperdense pseudocapsule surrounding the mesenteric fat,
    • lymph nodes within the fatty pseudo mass and
    • a hypodense halo around the nodes and the blood vessels

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

CHU de Reims

Other

Registry information

Acronym: MP - Cancer

Important dates

Study start
2014
Primary completion
2015
Study completion
2015
First posted
Oct 20, 2017
Registry last updated
Oct 20, 2017

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