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Percutaneous Transhepatic Cholangiography Versus Endoscopic Ultrasound Guided Biliary Drainage

NCT01686425 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 60

Last updated 2013-06-13

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Patients with obstructive jaundice due to locally advanced/metastatic malignancy with dilated intrahepatic bile ducts will be recruited from the department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the University Hospital of Leuven.

This population will have failed ERCP or will be considered when ERCP is not possible due to altered surgical anatomy.

Patients will be randomized to either PTC or EUS guided biliary drainage

Conditions

  • Malignant Biliary Obstruction

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography vs. endoscopic biliary drainage

Percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography biliary drainage is compared tot endoscopic biliary drainage in the management of malignant biliary obstruction not amenable to ERCP

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Schalk van der Merwe, MD, PhD · UZ Leuven

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-07-31
Primary Completion
2014-07-31
Completion
2014-12-31

Countries

  • Belgium

Study Locations

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