Patients undergoing bowel resection (patients with malignant and benign disease) Patients undergoing resection in the head/neck area (patients with malignant and benign diseases)
Conditions
Interventions
Group 1: Identification of lymph nodes in fatty tissue using an infrared camera
Sponsors
Klinik und Poliklinik für Viszeral-, Thorax- und Gefäßchirurgie, Uniklinikum Dresden
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: - Patients undergoing elective gastrointestinal surgery at the Clinic for Visceral, Thoracic, and Vascular Surgery or patients undergoing resection in the head/neck area at the Clinic for Ear, Nose, and Throat Medicine. - Consent to participate in the study
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: - Patients not capable of being informed
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Determination of the correctness of the presence of a of a lymph node by measuring the TP and FP values. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| The secondary endpoint is to compare the pathologist's standardized visible light-based methodology with the SWIR-based methodology, in which the metrics: - Lymph node detection (size of lymph node), - Time used to detect the lymph node, - location of the lymph node (depth in mm in the fatty tissue) - Number of lymph nodes detected by SWIR can be recorded. | — |
Countries
Germany
Contacts
Public ContactJulia Barthel
Klinik und Poliklinik für Viszeral-, Thorax- und Gefäßchirurgie, Uniklinikum Dresden
Outcome results
None listed