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Informativeness to Digital Rectal Examination

NCT01727388 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE3 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 320

Last updated 2025-09-19

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Summary

Digital rectal examination is an act clinically performed daily by physicians and surgeons. It remains the key diagnostic test and directs the therapeutic management of cancer of the lower and middle rectum. It can be done in two main positions: lateral decubitus, and supine.

However, no randomized study in colorectal surgery is not interested in evaluating the best position to perform a full rectal exam.

Conditions

  • Colon Cancer
  • Upper Rectum Cancer
  • Diverticulitis
  • Rectal Bleeding
  • Hernia

Interventions

PROCEDURE

lateral decubitus

PROCEDURE

supine decubitus

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Amiens

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
MALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-11-30
Primary Completion
2013-03-31
Completion
2013-03-31

Countries

  • France

Study Locations

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Diseases

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