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Brief Title: Virtual Bronchoscopy Transbronchial Needle Aspiration(TBNA): a Proof of Concept Study
Official Title: CT-PET Virtual Bronchoscopy Guided Transbronchial Needle Aspiration for Mediastinal Lymph Node Staging in Suspected Lung Cancer
Study ID: NCT01077492
Brief Summary: The purpose of this study is to determine wether CT-PET virtual bronchoscopy guided transbronchial needle aspiration is suitable for the investigation of mediastinal lymph nodes which is needed for correct staging of lung cancer.
Detailed Description: Accurate staging of mediastinal lymph nodes (MLNs) in patients with lung carcinoma (LC) is paramount as the N stage largely determines treatment strategy, prognosis and outcome. Surgical staging such as mediastinoscopy is considered the gold standard. A less invasive alternative is transbronchial needle aspiration (TBNA). This technique is limited however by moderate and operator dependent accuracy. Recently less invasive strategies such as esophageal ultrasound guided fine needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) and endobronchial ultrasound guided TBNA (EBUS-TBNA) were introduced. These strategies have largely complemented TBNA and surgical staging, with high accuracy and low morbidity. Disadvantages compared to TBNA however are required specific expertise, higher equipment and maintenance costs, the need for more assisting personnel and the need for sedation. Advances in computer generated image processing based on available CT and PET images enable (quasi) real-time virtual bronchoscopy that can assist minimal invasive surgical performance including bronchoscopy. Optimizing the traditional TBNA procedure with these modern imaging techniques might be equally accurate and more cost effective.
Minimum Age: 18 Years
Eligible Ages: ADULT, OLDER_ADULT
Sex: ALL
Healthy Volunteers: No
VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, , Netherlands
Name: Sayed Hashemi, MD
Affiliation: Amsterdam UMC, location VUmc
Role: STUDY_CHAIR
Name: Hans Daniels, MD
Affiliation: Amsterdam UMC, location VUmc
Role: STUDY_CHAIR
Name: Emiel Comans, PhD
Affiliation: Amsterdam UMC, location VUmc
Role: STUDY_CHAIR
Name: Otto Hoekstra, PhD
Affiliation: Amsterdam UMC, location VUmc
Role: STUDY_CHAIR
Name: Piet Postmus, PhD
Affiliation: Amsterdam UMC, location VUmc
Role: STUDY_CHAIR
Name: Tom Sutedja, PhD
Affiliation: Amsterdam UMC, location VUmc
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR