New Thyroid Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy Apparatus (fnab)

SB Istanbul Education and Research Hospital

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Thyroid Cancer

Treatments: Procedure: biopsy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01512212

thyroid.iiab

Details and patient eligibility

About

Evaluation of the effectivity of the new thyroid fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) apparatus of which patented from Turkish Patent Institute.

Full description

The author group of this investigation produced a new thyroid fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) apparatus and patented it from Turkish patent Institute. FNAB indicated nodular goitre patients are the subjects of this research. First, the investigators will perform standart FNAB after this procedure will perform FNAB with new apparatus. The investigators will evaluate the aspirates according to number of cells and malignity ratio of cells.

Enrollment: 40 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 17 to 85 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• fine needle aspiration biopsy indicated noduler goiter patients

Exclusion criteria

• diffuse goiter

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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40 participants in 1 patient group

single group

No Intervention group

Description:

FNAB will be perform first with standart technique and after with new FNAB apparatus

Treatment:

Procedure: biopsy