Feasibility of Endoscopic Thyroidectomy for Thyroid Carcinoma

Second Military Medical University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Thyroid Carcinoma

Treatments: Procedure: thyroidectomy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00993837

SMMU-2-2009-3

Details and patient eligibility

About

Endoscopic thyroidectomy has been used to treat thyroid diseases in China. However, whether this technique is rational to treat thyroid carcinoma is still in controversy. The diagnosis of thyroid carcinoma is predominantly made according to intra-operative frozen section pathological examination in China. In this research, the investigators want to compare clinical index (blood loss, operation duration, number of lymph nodes dissected, complication rates, etc) between patients underwent endoscopic thyroidectomy ( total thyroidectomy) and those underwent conversion to open procedure. The investigators want to evaluate the technical feasibility of endoscopic thyroidectomy for treating thyroid carcinoma.

Full description

intra-operative diagnosis of thyroid carcinoma is usually considered the indication of conversion to open surgery. with accumulation of experience of endoscopic thyroidectomy, the investigators want to evaluate the technical feasibility, completeness and safety of endoscopic thyroidectomy.

Enrollment: 60 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 45 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• lesion diameter less than 1 cm by ultrasound

Exclusion criteria

• frozen section diagnosis indicates benign lesion

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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60 participants in 1 patient group

conversion

Experimental group

Treatment:

Procedure: thyroidectomy