NCT00621088

A Prospective Randomised Multicenter Study Comparing the Sliding Hip Screw and the Intertan Nail in Trochanteric and Subtrochanteric Femoral Fractures

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 500 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Haukeland University Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This is a study to compare the new nail "INTERTAN" with a Sliding Hip Screw in treating a specific group of hipfractures (trochanteric and subtrochanteric fractures). Are there differences in terms of pain, early and late functional mobility and complications between the to implants (and methods of operation)?

Conditions

• Trochanteric and Subtrochanteric Hip Fractures
• Treatment With a New Nail or a Sliding Hip Screw

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Intertan	Operations performed either with a Sliding Hip Screw or a nail (Intertan)

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-02-01
• Primary completion: 2009-03-01
• Completion: 2010-03-01
• First posted: 2008-02-22
• Last updated: 2010-09-14

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Norway