Clinical trialNCT01460810CompletedInterventional

Safety and Efficacy of Silicone Oil Tamponade for Surgical Attenuation of Radiation Damage in Choroidal Melanoma

SponsorUniversity of Colorado, DenverEnrollment20Choroidal Melanoma

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Summary

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A prospective, experimental, case series of 20 patients, with choroidal melanoma, in which pars plana vitrectomy and Silicone oil as vitreous substitute will be used as intraocular shielding for attenuating the deleterious effects of radiation dose delivered to healthy ocular tissue during Iodine-125 plaque brachytherapy treatment and assess if the treatment can reduce the incidence and severity of radiation-induced adverse effects like radiation retinopathy and permanent loss of vision.

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Investigators

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Raul Velez-Montoya, MD
University of Colorado, Denver
Principal Investigator
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Scott C Oliver, MD
University of Colorado, Denver
Principal Investigator
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Sites

1 registered facility, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States

University of Colorado Eye Center
Aurora, Colorado, United States

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Drugs studied

No drug or biological interventions are in our data for this study. It may test a procedure, device or behavioral intervention, or the intervention list isn't in our current snapshot. See the registry record ↗. Why? →

Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start: 31 Jul 2011
Primary completion: 4 May 2021
Completion: 4 May 2021
Last update posted: 7 Mar 2022
Registered enrollment: 20
Registry id: NCT01460810

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