Percutaneous Image Guided Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery (VATS) Resection of Lung Lesions

Mass General Brigham

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 2

Conditions: Lung Cancer

Treatments: Procedure: Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery (VATS) wedge resection

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Industry

Identifiers

NCT01847209

2012P001915

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a phase II protocol to determine the safety and feasibility of Intraoperative CT fluoroscopy guidance for lung resection for small nodules.

Full description

This is a phase II protocol to determine the safety and feasibility of image guided CT marking for resection of small lung nodules. This is relevant because many such nodules are hard to localize for minimally invasive lung resection. It is hoped that this technology using fluoro CT capability available now in most operating room will improve safety and reliability of thoracic surgery.

Enrollment: 25 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• peripheral lung nodules < 3cm in size
• Surgical candidate

Exclusion criteria

• Non surgical candidate

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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25 participants in 1 patient group

CT Marking and VATS lung wedge resection

Experimental group

Description:

Each patient with a lung nodule meeting criteria will undergo marking with fiducials followed at the same time by Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery (VATS) lung wedge resection under CT fluoroscopy.

Treatment:

Procedure: Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery (VATS) wedge resection