NCT02952261

Application of 3D Printing Technique in Small Pulmonary Nodule Localization

Three-Dimensional Printing of Navigational Template in Localization of Small Pulmonary Nodule: A Prospective, Randomized, Controlled, Non-inferiority Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 200 (actual)
• Sponsor: Chang Chen · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 19 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The trial is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of three-dimensional printed navigational template in the clinical application of small peripheral lung nodule localization.

Detailed description

Localization of small lung nodule is challenging due to the difficulty of nodule recognition during VATS. A three-dimensional printed navigational template was designed to aid percutaneous lung nodule localization, and its feasibility has been confirmed in previous study. The trial was conducted to confirm the non-inferiority of template-guided method to conventional CT-guided method in terms of localization accuracy.

Conditions

• Lung Neoplasm
• Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	template-guided localization	Based on CT data, digital model of the navigational template was created using CAD software and imported to 3D printer. The navigational template serves as a guider to the localizer in lung nodule localization.
OTHER	CT-guided localization	Percutaneous lung nodule localization was conducted under the real-time guidance of CT scan. This is the conventional method of transthoracic lung nodule localization.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-10-24
• Primary completion: 2017-10-01
• Completion: 2017-10-25
• First posted: 2016-11-02
• Last updated: 2018-12-19
• Results posted: 2018-10-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China