Freehand Ultrasound Elasticity Imaging in Liver Surgery

Stopped early

Conditions studied: Liver Tumors

In brief

The purpose of this study is to investigate the potential for visualizing radiofrequency-induced (RFA) and microwave-induced (MWA) hepatic thermal ablation lesions using a novel, high resolution, and freehand ultrasound elasticity imaging method in human subjects.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00942383

Run by

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins

People needed

15

Starts

2007-09-01

Expected to finish

2012-06-13

Last updated by the study team

2019-03-28

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 100. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Any patient eligible for open, laparoscopic, or percutaneous hepatic RFA or MWA as their surgical treatment due to either primary tumors of the liver as well as liver metastases.
• Participants must be able to have post-operative CT/MRI at Johns Hopkins as their standard care.

You may not qualify if…

• Patients under 18 years old.
• Pregnant women.

Where it is running

• SKCCC — Baltimore, Maryland, United States

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