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Three Dimension Laparoscopic Versus Open Surgery for Gallbladder Carcinoma

Not Applicable
Conditions
Gallbladder Cancer
Surgery
Interventions
Procedure: Open
Procedure: Three dimensional laparoscopic
Registration Number
NCT03491878
Lead Sponsor
Tongji Hospital
Brief Summary

Introduction: Surgery is the only potential curative approach for the highly lethal gallbladder carcinoma. The laparoscopic surgery has developed rapidly since invented. As a kind of minimally invasive surgery, laparoscopic cholecystectomy including segmentg IVB and V is preferred by most of surgeons. There have been studies comparing intraoperative blood loss, postoperative morbidity, length of hospital stay and costs of laparoscopic cholecystectomy over open surgery. However, randomized controlled trials are still lacking but clearly required to reveal whether the laparoscopic approach or the open surgery is the better option for treating gallbladder carcinoma. We hypothesize that incidence of postoperative complications is lower, and time to functional recovery is shorter after laparosopic compared with open approach, even in an enhanced recovery setting.

Methods/design: We designed this prospective, randomized, controlled trial with two treatment approaches, laparoscopic versus open surgery for gallbladder carcinoma. The trial hypothesis is that laparoscopic approach has advantages in postoperative recoveries and be equivalent in operation time, oncological results and long-term follow-up compared with open counterpart. The duration of the entire trial is four years including prearrangement, follow-up and analyses.

Discussion: Although several studies have discussed different surgical approaches for gallbladder carcinoma treatment, this trial will be a thorough RCT comparing laparoscopic and open surgery for gallbladder carcinoma.

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
UNKNOWN
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
200
Inclusion Criteria
  1. Histologically proven gallbladder carcinoma.
  2. Highly presumed malignancy with difficulties to obtain histological evidence.
  3. Preoperative staging work up performed by upper abdomen enhanced CT scan and showed no vessel involvment.
  4. The subject understands the nature of this trial and willing to comply.
  5. Ability to provide written informed consent.
  6. Patients treated with curative intent in accordance to international guidelines.
Exclusion Criteria
  1. Distant metastases: peritoneal carcinomatosis, liver metastases, distant lymph node metastases, involvement of other organs.
  2. Patients with high operative risk as defined by the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) score >4.
  3. Synchronous malignancy in other organs.
  4. Palliative surgery.

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
open approachOpenOpen cholecystectomy including segments IVB and V
3D approachThree dimensional laparoscopicThree dimensional laparoscopic cholecystectomy including segments IVB and V
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Length of stay24 months

LOS is defined as the days between the surgery and hospital discharged

Complication rate24 months

Complication rate is defined as the number of subjects developed complication divided the total subjects number

R0 rescetion rate24 months

R0 rescetion rate for the carcinoma

Operation time24 months

Operation time is definied as the from either skin incision or trocar placement to the entire skin closure.

Estimated blood loss24 months

EBL is defined as the blood loss during the surgical procedure

Intraoperative blood transfusion24 months

IBT is defined as whether the subjects receive blood transfusion during the surgical procedure

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Tongji Hospital

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Wuhan, Hubei, China

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