Thyroid Cancer and Photoacoustic Imaging

Seoul St. Mary's Hospital

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Thyroid Nodule; Thyroid Cancer

Treatments: Device: Photoacoustic imaging

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04248166

KC15DISI0276

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of photoacoustic imaging in thyroid nodules. In addition, we would like to confirm the relationship between the results of photoacoustic imaging and histopathologic findings when thyroid nodules were diagnosed as thyroid cancer.

Enrollment: 100 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 19+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All thyroid nodule identified as benign or as thyroid cancer

Exclusion criteria

• Patient refuses to participate in the study or withdraws consent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)