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Comparative Study of Surgical Completeness After Robotic Thyroidectomy Versus Conventional Open Thyroidectomy
NCT01354639 · Yonsei University · Updated 5 Feb 2014
- What is being tested
- Not stated
- For
- Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma
- Kind of study
- Watches patients without assigning a treatment. No drug phase (a device or procedure study).
- Who can join
- Ages 20 years and older. About 150 people. The full rules are on the registry page.
- Where
- South Korea
- When
- Starts or started April 2011, ends Oct 2011. Registered 17 May 2011.
- Results
- None posted yet.
In the researchers' words
The robotic thyroidectomy (RT) has excellent cosmetic and several functional results. But there were no definite evidence of oncological safety of robotic thyroidectomy yet. To assure the surgical completeness of robotic thyroidectomy, the investigators compared robotic thyroidectomy and conventional open thyroidectomy (OT) by means of the postoperative radioactive iodine (RAI) uptake of possible remnant thyroid tissue and stimulated TG level.
Sites
- Severance HospitalSeoul, South Korea