Status:
UNKNOWN
Significance of Ultrasound Elastography in Lymph Node
Lead Sponsor:
Fangsurong
Collaborating Sponsors:
Johns Hopkins University
Conditions:
Lung Cancer
Eligibility:
All Genders
27-81 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
Background and Objectives: Elastography can reflect the difference of tissue hardness, which helps to identify the difference of hardness between benign and malignant tissues. The aim of this study wa...
Detailed Description
Introduction Elastography was first proposed by Ophir of Texas State University in the United States in 1991 ，which can objectively reflect the elastic information of the tissue through the deformatio...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Patients who have enlarged intrathoracic lymph nodes(≥1cm) evaluated by chest enhanced CT and/or 18-FDG high uptake (SUV Max \> 2.5) evaluated by 18-FDG PET-CT.
- Patients who are willing to undergo electronic bronchoscopy and agreed to take TBNA and EBUS-TBNA for pathology.
Exclusion
- There is a contraindication of electronic bronchoscopy: activity of hemoptysis, hypertension and arrhythmia, recent myocardial infarction or unstable angina pectoris attacks, serious heart and lung dysfunction, bleeding tendency which cannot be corrected, serious obstruction of superior vena cava syndrome, suspected aortic aneurysm, multiple pulmonary bullous,the body condition is extremely exhaustion, the pregnant or lactation period women, the infected wound deferred, uncontrollable mental illness.
- Patients who are not willing to accept electronic bronchoscopy.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
June 21 2016
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
December 31 2018
Estimated Enrollment :
42 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT03391557
Start Date
June 21 2016
End Date
December 31 2018
Last Update
January 25 2018
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