The Effect of Ligasure® to Destroy Cornual Portion of Fallopian Tube

Samsung Medical Center

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 3

Conditions: Completed; Recruiting

Treatments: Device: The Effect of Ligasure® to Destroy Cornual Portion of Fallopian Tube

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01894971

2013-06-25

Details and patient eligibility

About

Single-center prospective randomized trial to evaluate the effect of thermal damage of Ligasure® to destroy cornual portion of fallopian tube tisse.

Right of Left side of fallpian tube is randomized and coagulated one more time than other side before cut off. The pathologist evaluate the amount of fallopian tube tissue left at both cornual portion of cut off specimen.

Full description

When investigators perform salpingectomy, both side of cornual portion of the uterus are coagulated by Ligasure®. The randomized, the same word selected side of the fallopian tube is coagulated one more time at the cornual portion than unselected other side of fallopian tube. Hypothesis is that the side selected and coagulated twice would have less fallopian tube tisse left at fianl pathology than the side only once coagulated by Ligasure®.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 35 to 60 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• female 35-50
• premenopausal
• plan to perform hysterectomy

Exclusion criteria

• disease in fallopian tube before surgery
• has history of pelvic inflammatory disease

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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40 participants in 1 patient group

twice coagulated side of fallopian tube

Experimental group

Description:

twice coagulated side of fallopian tube once coagulated sied of fallopian tube

Treatment:

Device: The Effect of Ligasure® to Destroy Cornual Portion of Fallopian Tube