NCT00218868

Cytodiagnosis of Basal Cell Carcinoma and Actinic Keratosis Using Papanicolaou and May-grunwald-giemsa Stained Tissue Smear

Cytodiagnosis of Basal Cell Carcinoma and Actinic Keratosis Using Papanicolaou and May-grunvald-giemsa Stained Cutaneous Tissue Smear in Relation to Photodynamic Therapy

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 66 (actual)
• Sponsor: Norwegian University of Science and Technology · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 0 Years – 105 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to compare and evaluate the diagnostic performance of scrape cytology using two different cytological staining techniques, and to evaluate additional touch imprint cytology with that of histopathology of superficial basal cell carcinoma and actinic keratosis.

Conditions

• Carcinoma, Basal Cell
• Porokeratosis, Disseminated Superficial Actinic

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Skin scrape	scrape cytology using two different cytological staining techniques, and additional touch imprint cytology compared with histopathology of superficial basal cell carcinoma and actinic keratosis

Timeline

• Start date: 2000-01-01
• Primary completion: 2006-02-01
• Completion: 2007-11-01
• First posted: 2005-09-22
• Last updated: 2023-12-29

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Norway