A prospective study designed to show the superiority of contrast guided echoendoscopy versus conventional echoendoscopy
A prospective study that compares the results using FNA contrast echoendoscopy versus standard FNA echoendoscopy in the diagnosis of solid pancreatic tumors
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
150
Puncture of the pancreatic solid mass with fine needle aspiration under endoscopic ultrasonographic control. Passage in the same pancreatic mass of first using standard FNA method then contrast enhanced FNA method or vice versa according to the randomization
Seicean Andrada
Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, Romania
Diagnostic accuracy of CEUS FNA endosonography versus standard FNA endosonography in the etiological cyto histological of pancreatic solid tumors using histology core as comparison between the two methods
Diagnostic accuracy of CEUS FNA endosonography versus standard FNA endosonography in the etiological cyto histological of pancreatic solid tumors using histology core as comparison between the two methods
Time frame: an average of 2 years
Quality of histological specimen(histology core) obtained with the two types of FNA biopsies (contrast enhanced and standard)
Visual analogic scale
Time frame: 5 days
Dysfunction in the two types of biopsies
failure or difficulty reports with each procedure (%)
Time frame: day one
Comparison between standand endosonography and contrast enhanced endosonography in obtaining a superior quality in obtaining histology core
Visual analogic scale
Time frame: day one
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