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

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT03316001

Acronym

MP - Cancer

Enrollment

288

Registered

2017-10-20

Start date

2014-11-30

Completion date

2015-07-31

Last updated

2017-10-20

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Conditions

Mesenteric Panniculitis

Brief summary

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.

Detailed description

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.

Interventions

OTHERReview of multidetector row computed tomography scans

multidetector row computed tomography scans

Study design

Observational model

CASE_CONTROL

Time perspective

RETROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

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

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
mesenteric panniculitis	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

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026