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NCT06014697

OCT and Invasion in Cutaneous Skin Lesions

Completed Last updated 4 April 2025
What this trial tests

trial testing Optical Coherence Tomography in Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma in 71 participants. Completed in 1 August 2024.

Timeline
1 March 2023
Primary endpoint
1 June 2024
1 August 2024

Quick facts

Lead sponsorMaastricht University Medical Center
StatusCompleted
Study typeOBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment71
Start date1 March 2023
Primary completion1 June 2024
Estimated completion1 August 2024
Sites1 location across Netherlands

Drugs / interventions tested

Conditions studied

Sponsor

Maastricht University Medical Center

Who can join

Eligibility, any sex, with Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma or Bowen's Disease. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

The increasing incidence of actinic keratosis (AK), morbus Bowen (MB) and cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC), the patients with often multiple lesions and the disadvantages of invasive diagnostics show the need for an accurate non-invasive diagnostic tool for the determination of invasive growth in AK and MB. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a non-invasive scanner creating cross-sectional images of the skin, to a depth of 1-1,5 mm based on light waves. Until now, OCT has been proposed as non-invasive diagnostic tool for basal cell carcinomas. Although the diagnostic value of OCT for detection and sub-typing of basal cell carcinomas has already been demonstrated, it is unclear whether OCT can discriminate between invasive and non-invasive lesions (AK, MB and cSCCs). There are some studies that describe OCT characteristics of AK, MB and cSCCs, however, these characteristics have a lot of overlap (8-13). To date there are no clearly distinctive OCT features to distinguish between AK, MB and cSCCs. This study aims to investigate the value of OCT in discriminating between the presence and absence of invasion in lesions with clinical suspicion for invasion. Two experienced OCT-assessors will evaluate the OCT scans independently. The OCT assessors are blinded to the histological diagnosis of the lesions (invasive or non-invasive), which is used as golden standard. A 5-point Likert scale is used for OCT assessment. 1. Definitely not invasive 2. Probably not invasive 3. Unknown, probably invasive/probably not invasive 4. Probably invasive 5. Definitely invasive In addition to completing the Likert-scale, assessors are asked to describe the presence/absence of predefined OCT characteristics (a.o. hyperkeratosis and the presence of the dermo-epidermal junction) In case of disagreement between the independent assessors, the OCT scan will be re-assessed in a consensus meeting.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial. Completed trials usually publish results within 12-18 months.

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