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Prospective Study Assessing Thyroidectomy Using Robot

Prospective Study Assessing Thyroidectomy Using Robot

Status
UNKNOWN
Phases
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT02839655
Acronym
EVATAR
Enrollment
17
Registered
2016-07-21
Start date
2016-06-30
Completion date
2022-08-31
Last updated
2018-06-15

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Conditions

Patients With Thyroid Cancer

Brief summary

The robot-assisted surgery for benign and malignant thyroid tumors was widely developed in Asia and begins to spread in Western countries. The main advantage of the technique is to avoid a scar in the neck by placing it either in the axilla or at the hairline behind the ear to improve esthetic consequences and body image. It is not surgery minimally invasive but rather a way of remote access surgery. Data from the literature including cohort studies and meta-analyzes attest the security of the procedure in comparison with classic thyroid surgery (which remains the gold standard). However there is few data on the effectiveness of the technique in terms of the completeness of the surgery, according to the routine standard criteria used in endocrinology and endocrine cancer, and no French medico-economic study has been performed.

Interventions

Sponsors

Gustave Roussy, Cancer Campus, Grand Paris
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

1. Benign thyroid nodule or follicular or suspicious cytological (Bethesda classifications 2, 3, 4, or 5) requiring thyroid lobectomy or total thyroidectomy therapeutic or diagnostic 2. Differentiated thyroid cancers - CN0 (no suspicious lymph node in the central or lateral compartments on preoperative ultrasound - CN1A / b with lymph node metastases \<or = 10 mm in areas VI, III and / or IV, detected on preoperative ultrasound - For which the indication of a lobectomy or total thyroidectomy, with or without dissection of the central compartment and / or lateral neck was put in multidisciplinary meeting 3. Patient with no cons-indication to thyroid surgery or without dissection 4. Patient general condition of WHO grade 0-1 5. Patient age \> 18 years and able to comply with the protocol visits 6. Patient agreeing to undergo robot-assisted surgery, the incision being at patient choice, depending on the wishes concerning the location of the scar (Axillary or behind the ear channel) 7. Patient Information or his legal representative and signed consent enlightened 8. Patient affiliated to a system of social security or beneficiary of such a scheme

Exclusion criteria

1. A history of cervical surgery or external beam radiation therapy 2. Anomaly craniocervical hinge or symptomatic cervical spondylosis 3. Congenital or acquired shoulder or ipsilateral upper limb surgery (for axillary ) 4. paralysis preoperatively ( a laryngoscopic examination will be performed systematically preoperatively ) 5. tumors with obvious extra- thyroid extension or suspected during preoperative ( cT3T4 ) 6. metastatic cervical lymphadenopathy \> 10 mm during the preoperative 7. Pregnant women or during lactation 8. patient already included in another clinical trial with a molecule experimental

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Efficacy for benign tumorAssessed 3 months after surgeryIf total thyroidectomy : rate of patients with thyroglobulin (Tg) under non- suppressive treatment with L-thyroxine ( LT4 ) \<2 ng / ml to 3 months with a target value TSH between 0.5 and 2 ng / mL If lobectomy : size of the remaining thyroid ipsilateral to the surgery evaluated sonographically \<11 mm ( larger diameter ) to 3 months
Efficacy for malignant tumorAssessed 12 months after surgeryRate of patients in complete remission at 12 months, remission defined as no biological or radiological anomaly: * Tg / LT4 \< 2 ng / ml in the absence of treatment with 131I ( in the absence of anti Tg antibodies) or Tg / LT4 \<0.2 ng / mL in patients treated with 131I (absent anti Tg antibody ) * Normal cervical ultrasound * Normal SPECT -CT if treatment with 131I * If realized : CT and / or normal 18 FDG - PET

Countries

France

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026