Status:
COMPLETED
Contrast Enhanced (CE) Ultrasound and CE Computed Tomography or CE Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Liver Masses
Lead Sponsor:
Foothills Medical Centre
Collaborating Sponsors:
Vancouver General Hospital
London Health Sciences Centre
Conditions:
Liver Tumors
Eligibility:
All Genders
18-90 years
Brief Summary
This comparison study is performed to show equivalence of CEUS with CECT or CEMR to diagnose noninvasively focal liver masses. This is a multi-center prospective cohort study of 250 subjects, which wi...
Detailed Description
This comparison study is performed to show equivalence of CEUS with CECT or CEMR to diagnose noninvasively focal liver masses. This is a multi-center prospective cohort study of 250 subjects, which wi...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- An incidental liver mass amenable to US evaluation
- Undiagnosed liver mass
- Mass threshold size is 2.5 cm
- Source of subjects:
- Liver mass found on conventional institutional US
- Liver mass detected on CT and MRI that remain uncategorized
- Referral of patient with a liver mass following detection in outside institution.
- Confirmatory CT or MRI performed within 60 days of initial scan according to the institutional protocols
Exclusion
- Any known pre existing mass
- Pregnancy
- Severe or unstable cardiac disease, including angina, congestive heart failure, or arrhythmias
- Severe COPD
- Pulmonary hypertension
- Bidirectional shunts
- Transient right to left shunts
- Known hypersensitivity to Definity or any of its components
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
January 1 2009
Trial Type :
OBSERVATIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
December 1 2016
Estimated Enrollment :
250 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00828607
Start Date
January 1 2009
End Date
December 1 2016
Last Update
February 8 2018
Active Locations (4)
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1
Vancouver General Hospital
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V5Z 1M9
2
London Health Sciences Centre, University Hospital
London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 5A5
3
Sunnybrook Medical centre
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M4N 3M5
4
Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Hôpital Saint-Luc
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H2X 3J4