Is ultrasound-guided fine-needle cytology using aspiration useful for diagnosis of suspected thyroid nodules?; A randomized comparative study.

Status

Recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

CRIS

Registry ID

KCT0001857

Enrollment

172

Registered

2016-03-22

Start date

2016-04-05

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2019-03-11

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Conditions

None listed

Interventions

Procedure/Surgery : The target patients are more than 19 years old with a thyroid nodule, which is larger than 0.5cm, indeterminate or suspicious malignancy. Patients are randomized into two groups ar

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Inclusion criteria

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

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

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
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

Measure	Time frame
the rate of nondiagnostic and incidence of complications after fine-needle cytology	—

Countries

Korea, Republic of

Contacts

Public ContactJina Lee

The Catholic University of Korea, Daejeon St. Mary's Hospital

Outcome results