Ultra Sound Guided Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology (FNAC) of Liver and Pancreas Tumours

Herlev Hospital

Status: Suspended

Conditions: Tumors in Pancreas; Tumors in Liver

Treatments: Procedure: FNAC (fine needle aspiration cytology)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00991601

H-KA-05092

Details and patient eligibility

About

Patients with tumors in liver or pancreas are randomized to ultrasound (UL)-guided FNAC biopsies with guidance method or UL-guided FNAC biopsies with free-hand method.

Enrollment: 150 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• adult over 18 years
• tumors in liver and/or pancreas

Exclusion criteria

• low coagulation factors
• mentally ill patients.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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150 participants in 1 patient group

biopsy arm

Experimental group

Description:

patients with tumors in liver and/or pancreas

Treatment:

Procedure: FNAC (fine needle aspiration cytology)