Assessment of Hepatic Fibrosis by Shear Wave Elastography in Patients With Liver Malignancy: A Prospective Single-center Study

Sun Yat-sen University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Liver Tumor; Hepatic Fibrosis

Treatments: Other: two-dimensional shear-wave elastography (SWE)

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02958592

2016-FXY-132

Details and patient eligibility

About

To evaluate the diagnostic performance of two-dimensional shear-wave elastography (SWE) for staging hepatic fibrosis in the background liver parenchyma in patients with liver tumors before hepatic resection, using resected tissue pathology as a reference standard.

Enrollment: 121 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• (i) patients with a solid focal liver lesion that was pathologically proven or diagnosed by imaging methods such as conventional US, CT or MR imaging; (ii) patients scheduled to undergo a hepatectomy; (iii) patients with a lesion ≥1.0 cm in diameter.

Exclusion criteria

• (i) patients with a history of chemotherapy; (ii) patients unable to properly hold their breath.

Trial design

121 participants in 1 patient group

study group

Description:

patients with liver tumor intend to perform hepatectomy

Treatment:

Other: two-dimensional shear-wave elastography (SWE)