Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS) Guided Fine Needle Aspiration (FNA) EUS-FNA of Solid Pancreatic Mass Lesions Using a Novel Corkscrew Technique: a Pilot Study

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Conditions studied: Pancreatic Cancer

In brief

This research is being done to investigate if a new technique to biopsy the pancreas will lead to a larger amount tissue material that can be analyzed. Investigators have called the technique the "corkscrew" technique and believe it will allow obtaining a larger biopsy sample during the endoscopic ultrasound examination. The corkscrew technique uses a clockwise rotational movement to drive the needle into the pancreatic mass (like a wine bottle opener twists and buries itself into a cork). It is believed that this will lead to a better biopsy sample than the usual way and therefore result in a higher chance of a diagnosis.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02116322

Run by

Johns Hopkins University

People needed

4

Starts

2014-04-01

Expected to finish

2016-05-01

Last updated by the study team

2017-07-24

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 90. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• In-patients and out-patients between the age of 18 and 90 years with solid pancreatic masses presenting for EUS-Fine Needle Aspiration (FNTA)

You may not qualify if…

• Uncorrectable coagulopathy (INR > 1.5)
• Uncorrectable thrombocytopenia (platelet < 50,000)
• Uncooperative patients
• Pregnant women (women of childbearing age will undergo urine pregnancy testing, which is routine for all endoscopic procedures)
• Refusal to consent form
• Prior negative FNTA
• In situ metallic biliary stents
• Predominantly cystic lesions
• Inaccessible lesions to EUS

Where it is running

• Johns Hopkins Hospital — Baltimore, Maryland, United States

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