Improved Preoperative Selection of Cold Thyroid Nodules

Herlev Hospital

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Thyroid Nodules

Treatments: Other: No intervention. Applying gene profiling on needle aspirates

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00297297

HH-FB-10

Details and patient eligibility

About

Molecular gene profiling of fine-needle aspiration samples in addition to fine-needle aspiration cytology can improve the selection of patients with benign versus malignant thyroid nodules with improved sensitivity.

Enrollment: 100 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Solitary thyroid nodules that appear solid on ultrasound and cold on a scintiscan

Exclusion criteria

• Pregnancy and lactation
• Age below 20 years