Performance of the Water-Enema Computed Tomography (WE-CT)

University Hospital, Angers

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Colon Cancer

Treatments: Procedure: Water-Enema Computed Tomography

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00188110

2002/23 (CCPPRB)

PHRC-02-01

Details and patient eligibility

About

The WE-CT is an innovative and easy practice imaging technique of colon tumors; it is based on the colon distension by a high volume of warm water and a multidetector CT acquisition after IV (intravenous) contrast, allowing image analysis including the wall thickness and enhancement, the pericolic adjacent spaces and the entire abdomen.

The goal of the study is the evaluation of its performances for the diagnosis of colon tumors.

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Written informed consent
• WE-TC indication for colon tumor suspicion
• Age > 18 years

Exclusion criteria

• Pregnancy
• Patients under 65 years old and for whom the only WE-TC indication is familial antecedents of colon tumor, without clinical or para-clinical personal signs for this pathology
• Infected sigmoid diverticulosis
• Occlusive syndrome
• Anesthesia contraindications
• Anal incontinence
• Renal insufficiency (creatinine > 150 micromol/L)
• Iode allergy
• Visceralgine contraindications
• Scania contraindications

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)