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NCT Number: NCT02900872

Systematic Chart Review of Carotidynia Patients

Systematic retrospective study of medical charts and medical imaging files, of patients consulting for acute neck pain and presenting unclassified abnormalities on dedicated vessel imaging.

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Key information

Conditions

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

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

Inclusion criteria

  • acute cervical tenderness or neck pain fulfilling the characteristics of an idiopathic neck pain syndrome as defined by the International Headache Society in 1988
  • the performing of a diagnostic imaging like MRI, CT or US of the cervical area with a dedicated vessel analysis
  • unilateral or bilateral abnormalities of common carotid, carotid bifurcation or internal carotid arteries on dedicated vessel imaging.

Exclusion criteria

  • patients without imaging, or without dedicated vessel analysis
  • patients presenting with pain caused by a clearly identified vascular disease on dedicated vessel analysis imaging such as carotid occlusion, carotid dissection, vasculitis like giant cell arteritis.
  • patients with no abnormality on cervical or vessel imaging

Treatment and study plan

Primary outcomes

  1. Presence or absence of perivascular carotid artery enlargement on dedicated vessel imaging

    Time frame: Within 1 week following admission

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Fondation Ophtalmologique Adolphe de Rothschild

Network

Registry information

Acronym: TIPIC

Important dates

Study start
2009
Primary completion
2015
First posted
Sep 14, 2016
Registry last updated
Sep 14, 2016

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