New Thyroid Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy Apparatus

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Thyroid Cancer
• Interventions: Procedure: biopsy

• Registration Number: NCT01512212
• Lead Sponsor: SB Istanbul Education and Research Hospital

Brief Summary

Evaluation of the effectivity of the new thyroid fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) apparatus of which patented from Turkish Patent Institute.

Detailed Description

The author group of this investigation produced a new thyroid fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) apparatus and patented it from Turkish patent Institute. FNAB indicated nodular goitre patients are the subjects of this research. First, the investigators will perform standart FNAB after this procedure will perform FNAB with new apparatus. The investigators will evaluate the aspirates according to number of cells and malignity ratio of cells.

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2012-01
• Study Start: 2012-01
• Study First Submitted: 2012-01-10
• Study First Submitted QC: 2012-01-13
• Last Update Submitted: 2012-01-13
• Study First Posted: 2012-01-19
• Last Update Posted: 2012-01-19
• Primary Completion: 2012-06
• Study Completion: 2012-09

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 40

Inclusion Criteria

• fine needle aspiration biopsy indicated noduler goiter patients

Exclusion Criteria

• diffuse goiter

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
single group	biopsy	FNAB will be perform first with standart technique and after with new FNAB apparatus

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
number of cells	2	number of aspirated cells will be compared

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
type of cells	2	type (benign, suspect, malign) of cells will be compared

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Bezmialem Vakif University; 🇹🇷 Istanbul, Marmara, Turkey