Quantitative analysis of contrast-enhanced ultrasound using microbubble to detect micro-metastasis of lymph node in patients with breast cancer
Not Applicable
Recruiting
- Conditions
- Patients who will diagnosed with breast cancer, and will be performed radical breast surgery without neoadjuvant chemotherapy. Patients who will diagnosed with clinically negative lymph node metastasis by using preoperative palpation, CT and MRI.
- Registration Number
- JPRN-UMIN000023614
- Lead Sponsor
- Diagnostic Radiology,Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- Female
- Target Recruitment
- 90
Inclusion Criteria
Not provided
Exclusion Criteria
Patients who will have possibility of pregnancy or patients who will be breast-feeding woman. Patients who will have allergy for contrast agent of ultrasound, egg and egg products. Patients who will have right-to-left shunt. Patients who will have severe heart disease or lung disease.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method To evaluate whether the quantitative measurement of blood vessel density by contrast-enhanced ultrasound enables the diagnosis of lymph nodes micrometastases in breast cancer patients by setting appropriate threshold.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method