Status:

COMPLETED

Resect and Discard Strategy in Clinical Practice

Lead Sponsor:

Valduce Hospital

Conditions:

Endoscopic Assessment

Colonic Polyps

Eligibility:

All Genders

18-80 years

Brief Summary

Nowadays, post-polypectomy surveillance intervals are determined by combining endoscopic and pathologic data. Real-time imaging technologies, have shown promising results in discriminating adenomatous...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • consecutive adult outpatients undergoing colonoscopy for routine clinical indications

Exclusion

  • surveillance interval was not necessarily directed by endoscopic findings (history of colorectal cancer, inflammatory bowel disease, hereditary polyposis syndromes, hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer)
  • colonoscopy was performed without NBI technology
  • at least one lesion \> 10 mm or \< 10 mm but with morphologic features suspect for malignancy (depressed or ulcerated lesions) was detected
  • bowel preparation was inadequate
  • caecal intubation was not accomplished
  • polyps could not be resected for concomitant anticoagulation treatment, 7) polyps were resected but not retrieved for pathology.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

February 1 2011

Trial Type :

OBSERVATIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

Estimated Enrollment :

286 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT01462123

Start Date

February 1 2011

Last Update

October 31 2011

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Valduce Hospital - Gastroenterology Department

Como, CO, Italy, 2100