ThoHSpEkt Thoracoscopic Ectomy of Radioactively Marked Pulmonary Nodules With Free-hand SPECT
Status:
Terminated
Trial end date:
2016-12-31
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
Title ThoHSpEkt
Study Design Pilot Study concerning the technical operative methods and a phase II study
concerning the radiopharmaceutical (therapeutic-explorative study with an approved drug in a
new indication)
Location Kantonsspital St.Gallen
Aim Proof of feasibility of thoracoscopic ectomy of radioactively marked pulmonary nodules
with the help of free-hand SPECT.
Background In the Cantonal Hospital of St.Gallen an average of 30 - 40 patients will be
operated with thoracoscopic ectomy for a pulmonary nodule. When localisation of the nodule is
not possible a switch to minithoracotomy is performed.
Study intervention Marking of pulmonary nodules with radioactivity. Free-hand SPECT guided
surgery
Risks Risks of bronchoscopic or CT-intervention Radiation risk (minimal)
Rational for patient number 10 patients for each group are enough to prove the feasibility,
to manage difficulties and to record complications
Duration approximately 24 months.