Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT02832882
RFA for Small HCC With No-touch Technique Using Octopus Electrode
Radiofrequency Ablation for Small Hepatocellular Carcinoma Using Octopus Electrode and No-touch Technique: Preliminary Study
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 118 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Seoul National University Hospital · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 20 Years – 85 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
In this study, the investigators are going to prospectively compare the clinical outcomes (technical success rate, 12 month local tumor progression rate, complication rate, tumor seeding rate) of Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) with octopus electrode and no-touch technique for Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) to those of RFA with conventional tumor puncture method with the same device.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| PROCEDURE | No-touch RFA | No-touch RFA indicates RFA without tumor puncture. In this study, no-touch RFA is performed using Octopus electrodes. |
| PROCEDURE | Conventional tumor puncture RFA | Conventional tumor puncture RFA indicates routine procedure of RFA in our institution. In this study, RFA procedure is performed using Octopus electrodes. |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2016-10-21
- Primary completion
- 2018-09-11
- Completion
- 2020-01-17
- First posted
- 2016-07-14
- Last updated
- 2021-03-22
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT02832882. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.