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Brief Title: The Efficacy of Shear-wave Elastography-guided Aspiration and Biopsy for Diagnosis in Lung Tumor
Official Title: The Efficacy of Shear-wave Elastography-guided Aspiration and Biopsy for Diagnosis in Lung Tumor: a Randomized Controlled Trial
Study ID: NCT03881410
Brief Summary: To use the shear-wave elastography to assist the transthoracic ultrasound-guided aspiration biopsy of peripheral lung tumor 1. To identify the intra-tumor heterogeneity of elasticity 2. To increase the diagnostic yield in ultrasound-guided transthoracic biopsy of subpleural pulmonary tumor
Detailed Description:
Minimum Age: 20 Years
Eligible Ages: ADULT, OLDER_ADULT
Sex: ALL
Healthy Volunteers: No
National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei City, , Taiwan
Name: Yao-Wen Kuo
Affiliation: National Taiwan University Hospital
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR