A Real-time and Computerized Sonographic Reporting System in Predicting Malignant Cervical Lymphadenopathy

Far Eastern Memorial Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Lymphadenopathy

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01130402

098026-3

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigaotors want to establish a real-time and computerized score reporting system based on the significant predictors of the measured sonographic parameters and demographic data.

Full description

One hundred eight patients with neck lymphadenopathy, receiving ultrasonography and ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration (US-FNA), were used to construct a predictive model. This model was validated by another independent patient cohort.

Enrollment: 189 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 10 to 83 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients with previously untreated neck masses underwent neck US

Exclusion criteria

• The neck mass was not lymph node
• No US-FNA cytology result

Trial design

189 participants in 1 patient group

Neck masses

Description:

Patients with previously untreated neck masses