NCT02548338

Argon Plasma Coagulation Scalpel on Surgical Treatment of Breast Cancer

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2 / Phase 3
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (actual)
• Sponsor: Federal University of São Paulo · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 85 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The investigators are selecting sixty (60) with breast cancer diagnoses where the surgical treatment is indicated.Furthermore the investigators divided in two groups : 1) surgical treatment using regular electric scalpel ; 2) surgical treatment using argon plasma coagulation scalpel. Our primary goal is to measure the bleeding during the surgery using the weight of the surgical tissues used. Secondary we'll evaluate the immediate post operative outcomes, like infection, hematomas and seromas. All these variables will be evaluated by a doctor using our standard clinical record and it will be measured using reliable parameters, for exemple: if the investigators clinically detect a hematoma then we'll perform an ultrasound to take the real extension; if the investigators clinically pick an infection we'll measure the extension of the hiperemia; and if the investigators clinically pick a seroma we'll drain and quantify it. Secondary the investigators going to evaluate and measure (centimeters) the terminal damage caused on the surgical specimens (samples) using the microscope.

Conditions

• Breast Neoplasms

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	argon plasma coagulation	On the first group we use the regular electric scalpel to perform the surgery , and on the second group we use the argon plasma coagulation scalpel to perform the procedure.

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-09-01
• Primary completion: 2014-11-01
• Completion: 2015-04-01
• First posted: 2015-09-14
• Last updated: 2015-09-14