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SWUS Elastography for Thyroid Nodule

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Waitlist Available
Led By Manjiri K. Dighe, MD
Research Sponsored by University of Washington
Eligibility Criteria Checklist
Specific guidelines that determine who can or cannot participate in a clinical trial
Must have
Clinical diagnosis of thyroid nodule
Referred for thyroid FNA or surgery
Timeline
Screening 3 weeks
Treatment Varies
Follow Up up to 2 months. a one-time swus elastography will be performed on day 1 within 2 months prior to the patients scheduled clinical fna or surgery.
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Study Summary

Shear wave ultrasound elastography is a new technique of finding the softness or hardness in tissue by applying a "push" generated by the machine. This technique will help in diagnosing malignancy in the thyroid gland without biopsy and avoiding biopsy in noncancerous nodules.

Eligible Conditions
  • Thyroid Nodule

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

You may be eligible if you check “Yes” for the criteria below

Timeline

Screening ~ 3 weeks
Treatment ~ Varies
Follow Up ~up to 2 months. a one-time swus elastography will be performed on day 1 within 2 months prior to the patients scheduled clinical fna or surgery.
This trial's timeline: 3 weeks for screening, Varies for treatment, and up to 2 months. a one-time swus elastography will be performed on day 1 within 2 months prior to the patients scheduled clinical fna or surgery. for reporting.

Treatment Details

Study Objectives

Outcome measures can provide a clearer picture of what you can expect from a treatment.
Primary outcome measures
Correlating stiffness from the SWUS elastography with indentometer and pathology findings
Secondary outcome measures
Correlating SWUS findings with routine US findings

Trial Design

1Treatment groups
Experimental Treatment
Group I: SWUS ElastographyExperimental Treatment1 Intervention
This is a noninvasive technique using focused ultrasonic beams (pushing beams.) Several pushing beams at increasing depths are transmitted to generate a quasi-plane shear wave frame that propagates throughout the imaging area. After generating the shear wave, an ultrafast imaging sequence is performed to acquire successive raw radiofrequency dots at a very high frame rate (up to 20,000 per second). A tissue elasticity assessment can be derived from shear wave propagation speed. A color-coded image is displayed; softer tissue in blue and stiffer tissue in red. Quantitative information is delivered by drawing regions of interest on the thyroid and surrounding tissues which is the Elasticity Index expressed in kilo-Pascal (kPa). Due to the lack of manual compression and known value of the strength of pushing beam, SWUS gives an objective number to stiffness within the nodule.

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Who is running the clinical trial?

University of WashingtonLead Sponsor
1,729 Previous Clinical Trials
1,842,254 Total Patients Enrolled
National Cancer Institute (NCI)NIH
13,615 Previous Clinical Trials
40,918,445 Total Patients Enrolled
9 Trials studying Thyroid Nodule
2,935 Patients Enrolled for Thyroid Nodule
Manjiri K. Dighe, MDPrincipal InvestigatorUniversity of Washington

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~14 spots leftby Mar 2025