Measuring Temperatures of Tissues During Endoscopy

Sheba Medical Center

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Carcinoma, Undifferentiated

Treatments: Other: no intervention

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00868504

SHEBA-09-6887-AO-CTIL

Details and patient eligibility

About

Previous studies have indicated that tumors are warmer than the surrounding tissues. We want to ascertain that this is true for tumors in the GI tract. If so, a thermal camera in an endoscope may aid the diagnosis of tumors. The experiment entails inserting a cannula sheathed thermocouple into the work canal of an endoscope or a colonoscope. The examining physician will bring the distal end to touch the tumors he finds and their adjacent tissues, noting their respective temperatures. This experiment must be conducted before embarking on the complicated and costly project of producing a tiny thermal camera which will be able to navigate the GI tract.

Enrollment: 50 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• consenting adults

Exclusion criteria

• none

Trial design

50 participants in 1 patient group

examined by endoscopy

Description:

Patients, examined by endoscopy, being screened for GI tract tumors

Treatment:

Other: no intervention