This is a single-arm, prospective study of a radiofrequency ablation device on the excised breast tissue of ten (10) prophylactic mastectomy patients. The ablation lesion created by the device will be analyzed histologically.
This study is a single-center, prospective, open label study of a radiofrequency ablation device. 10 patients who are scheduled to undergo prophylactic mastectomy will be recruited by the clinical investigators at the investigational site in accordance with the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Once the breast tissue is removed, the radiofrequency ablation device will be used on the ex vivo tissue to ablate a lesion around a cavity created in the tissue. The ablation lesion will be characterized. The study period per subject is the time it takes to assess the ablation lesion histologically.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
11
Radiofrequency ablation of the cavity walls of a simulated lumpectomy in the excised prophylactic mastectomy tissue.
Histologic measurement of cavitary ablation lesions created by the Innoblative radiofrequency ablation device in ex vivo breast tissue to correlate ablation size with ablation parameters.
Histologic analysis of ablation depth around the cavity.
Time frame: Two weeks after surgery
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