Best Needle Size for FNA of Palpable Breast Mass:Randomised Controlled Study

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Kashani Social Security Hospital

Status

Unknown

Conditions

Palpable Breast Mass

Treatments

Procedure: FNA - fine needle aspiration

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT00595660

17251-10/10/1386

Details and patient eligibility

About

Needle size from22 to 25 were used for fine needle aspiration of palpable breast lumps. In this study we choose one, randomly, and fallow the result of cytologic evaluation regarding specimen adequacy.

Full description

Patient assigned randomly to FNA of palpable breast mass with different needle size:21-22-23-24

Enrollment

250 estimated patients

Sex

Female

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Any Woman with palpable Breast Mass

Exclusion criteria

Previous open Biopsy or Surgery
Active infection
Breast cysts
Patient refusal to do FNA

Trial design

Primary purpose

Diagnostic

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

Single Blind

250 participants in 4 patient groups

1

Active Comparator group

Description:

Needle 21 for FNA

Treatment:

Procedure: FNA - fine needle aspiration

2

Active Comparator group

Description:

22 needle for FNA

Treatment:

Procedure: FNA - fine needle aspiration

3

Active Comparator group

Description:

23 needle for FNA

Treatment:

Procedure: FNA - fine needle aspiration

4

Active Comparator group

Description:

24 needle for FNA

Treatment:

Procedure: FNA - fine needle aspiration

Trial contacts and locations

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Central trial contact

Bijan -- Mohammadhosseini, General Surgeon,MD