NCT00300547

Preoperative Assessment for Synchronous Carcinoma or Polyps With Magnetic Resonance (MR) Colonography

Preoperative Assessment for Synchronous Carcinoma or Polyps With MR Colonography in Patients With Obstructing Cancer. A Prospective Study.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 4
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (actual)
• Sponsor: Herlev Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to diagnose possible synchronous carcinomas and polyps with magnetic resonance (MR) colonography in patients booked for operation because of carcinoma in the descending or sigmoid colon, where a preoperative full colonoscopy is not possible. Two days before colonography, patients ingest a 200 ml Barium sulfate solution four times a day, which will render fecal masses "invisible" on the following MR colonography. The study is primarily a feasibility study with altered operative strategy as a secondary end-point. Gold standard is colonoscopy and operation.

Conditions

• Obstructing Colorectal Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	MR colonography	Altered planned surgical procedure if MR colonoscopy reveals synchronous cancer or larger polyps

Timeline

• Start date: 2007-03-01
• Primary completion: 2008-04-01
• First posted: 2006-03-09
• Last updated: 2010-08-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Denmark