Pyrosequencing of the BRAFV600E Mutation

Chungnam National University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Thyroid Neoplasms

Treatments: Procedure: ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration biopsy

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00551486

071027

Details and patient eligibility

About

To investigate the diagnostic efficiency of pyrosequencing for the mutant BRAF allele in ultrasound (US)-guided fine needle aspiration biopsies (FNAB) of thyroid incidentalomas.

Enrollment: 101 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients with thyroid nodule larger than 1 cm, or nodule smaller than 1 cm that required further evaluation because of suspicious ultrasound findings

Exclusion criteria

• Patients who refuse participation.

Trial design

101 participants in 1 patient group

1

Description:

Patients with thyroid incidentaloma underwent ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration biopsy

Treatment:

Procedure: ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration biopsy