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Ultrasound Guided Needling Versus Ultrasound Guided Corticosteroid Injection Alone, a Randomized Controlled Trial.

NCT01538758 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 80

Last updated 2012-07-12

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Ultrasound guided needling is becoming an accepted treatment for patients with shoulder pain due to calcifying tendinitis. However, evidence for this treatment is lacking. The investigators expect that patients treated with us guided needling with corticosteroid injection compared with patients treated with only corticosteroid injections in the subacromial bursa have better clinical outcome after one year follow-up.

Conditions

  • Calcific Tendinitis

Interventions

OTHER

Us guided needling

Us guided needling is a therapeutical technique treating calcifying tendinitis of the shoulder. Calcifications in the rotator cuff tendon are visualised with ultrasound. Under ultrasound guidance a 20 gauge needle is inserted in the calcification. Lidocaine 1% in a 1cc syringe is injected in the calcification and aspirated. The calcification is flushed until the fluid is clear. Sometimes it is not possible to flush the calcification. In this case the calcification will be fragmented. After flushing or fragmentation of the calcification, 20 mg triamcinolone with 1cc lidocaine 1% will be injected in de subacromial bursa under us guidance.

OTHER

corticosteroid injection

Us guided subacromial bursa injection with 20 mg triamcinolone with 1cc lidocaine 1%.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Medisch Spectrum Twente

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Eva Genbrugge, MD · MST

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-07-31
Primary Completion
2013-07-31
Completion
2014-07-31

Countries

  • Netherlands

Study Locations

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