Is ultrasound-guided fine-needle cytology using aspiration useful for diagnosis of suspected thyroid nodules?; A randomized comparative study.
Not Applicable
Recruiting
- Conditions
- Not Applicable
- Registration Number
- KCT0001857
- Lead Sponsor
- The Catholic University of Korea, Daejeon St. Mary's Hospital
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 172
Inclusion Criteria
ages : older than 19 years.
size : larger than 0.5cm with mixed or soild nature which is suspicious of thyroid carcinoma(as ultrasound finding, indeterminate or suspicious malignancy).
agreed to study and sign to witten informed consent.
not ineligible clinical trials.
Exclusion Criteria
smaller than 0.5cm
pure cystic nodule
not suspicious of thyroid carcinoma
unnecessary needle sampling
too hard to sampling bacause of adjacent vessels
taken anti-coagulation medicine within a week
not agreed to study
resampling within 3 months
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional Study
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method the proportions of diagnostically superior (DS) and diagnostically adequate (DA) of results of thyroid fine-needle cytology, using the parameters of scoring system of tissue slides specimen
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method the rate of nondiagnostic and incidence of complications after fine-needle cytology