NCT06873815 · Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
A Study of Fluorescein Sodium in People Undergoing Vulvectomy for Extramammary Paget's Disease (EMPD)
What this study is about
The researchers are doing this study to see if giving people fluorescein sodium as an IV infusion before their vulvectomy for treating extramammary Paget's disease (EMPD) can help surgeons with performing the procedure. The researchers will look at whether fluorescein sodium helps surgeons identify disease cells that should be removed.
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The researchers are doing this study to see if giving people fluorescein sodium as an IV infusion before their vulvectomy for treating extramammary Paget's disease (EMPD) can help surgeons with performing the procedure. The researchers will look at whether fluorescein sodium helps surgeons identify disease cells that should be removed. Other purposes of this study include looking at the following: If there are any complications during or after vulvectomy involving the use of fluorescein sodium.
Interventions
DRUG
Fluorescein Sodium
Patients will receive IV fluorescein sodium in the operating room before the vulvectomy procedure.
Primary outcome measures
rate of positive pathologic surgical margin status
Time frame: 1 year
is to determine whether the use of IV fluorescein sodium reduces the rate of positive surgical margins in patients undergoing vulvectomy for EMPD. The incidence of positive surgical margins on final pathology will be evaluated as the primary endpoint;
Who can participate
This study lists these criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov. A study coordinator reviews eligibility during screening — this page does not determine whether you qualify.
Inclusion criteria
- Age ≥18 years
- Noninvasive or microinvasive EMPD with a contiguous visible clinical lesion
- Newly diagnosed or recurrent lesion
- Scheduled to undergo wide local excision or vulvectomy not requiring resection of the clitoris, urethra, or anus and with the surgeon's judgment that primary closure is possible (V-Y advancement flap closure is allowed)
Exclusion criteria
- History of allergic reaction to fluorescein sodium
- Multifocal, noncontiguous clinical lesion
- Current or previous invasive EMPD
- History of invasive vulvar, vaginal, or anal cancer
- Lesion in which resection of the clitoris, urethra, and/or anus is deemed to be necessary
- Lesion in which a primary closure or V-Y advancement flap is believed not to be possible and a larger myocutaneous flap is needed for closure of the defect
- History of radiation therapy to the vulva and/or anus
Where
- Basking Ridge, New Jersey
- Middletown, New Jersey
- Montvale, New Jersey
- Commack, New York
- Harrison, New York
- New York, New York
- Uniondale, New York
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Data: ClinicalTrials.gov · synced Jan 12, 2026 · Source of record for eligibility and locations