NCT02348437

Repair vs Non-repair of the Pronator Quadratus Muscle in Distal Radius Fractures. RCT.

Clinical Outcome After Repair of the Pronator Quadratus Muscle in Volar Locked Plating of the Distal Radius. A Randomised Clinical Trial.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 72 (actual)
• Sponsor: Nordsjaellands Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine the functional outcome of repairing the pronator quadratus (PQ) muscle in subjects operated for a distal radius fracture (DRF) with volar locked plating.

Detailed description

Fractures of the distal radius are common in the elderly. A frequent treatment of an unstable DRF is surgery with volar plating using the modified Henry's approach. In some cases the fracture mechanism has injured the PQ muscle and subsequent reconstruction of the muscle can be difficult. When the PQ muscle is not injured the plate is fixated through a radial and distal release of the PQ muscle and resuture/repair of the PQ muscle is attempted by most surgeons. The clinical relevance of repairing the PQ muscle has not previously been investigated in a randomised clinical trial and we hypothesise that there is no difference in functional outcome whether the PQ muscle is repaired or not.

Conditions

• Radius Fractures
• Colles' Fracture
• Rupture of Muscle
• Arm Injuries

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Repair	An on-going suture technique with minimum four stitches.
PROCEDURE	Non-repair	The PQ muscle will be placed so it covers the volar plate. No suture.

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-02-01
• Primary completion: 2017-04-01
• Completion: 2017-06-01
• First posted: 2015-01-28
• Last updated: 2017-09-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Denmark