Interest of Saline MR Peritoneography for Pre-operative Assessment of Rectal Cancer

Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc- Université Catholique de Louvain

Status: Completed

Conditions: Rectal Adenocarcinoma

Treatments: Procedure: MR saline peritoneography

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01497457

B403201112604

Details and patient eligibility

About

MR saline peritoneography could be useful to demonstrate the peritoneal outline of the pouch of Douglas. The investigators think that the localization of the rectal tumor in function of this anatomic mark could be decisive for pre-operative assessment.

Enrollment: 17 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Rectal adenocarcinoma

Exclusion criteria

• Metastatic disease
• under 18y patient
• woman of childbearing age

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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17 participants in 1 patient group

MR saline peritoneography

Experimental group

Description:

Patients that will undergo MR saline peritoneography

Treatment:

Procedure: MR saline peritoneography