Endoscopic Ultrasound Staging of Periampullary Neoplasms: Retrospective

Indiana University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Periampullary Neoplasms

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00880633

0703-58

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this retrospective study is to determine the degree to which a biliary stent affects EUS staging accuracy of ampullary tumors.

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients will be identified retrospectively through an existing Indiana University Medical Center EUS database and pathology database.
• Patients with and without biliary stents will be included.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients that were suspected to have ampullary tumors but who were ultimately found to have a normal ampulla will be excluded.