NCT02461680

Treatment for Partial Lesions of the Fingers Flexor Tendons : Tangential Resection or Direct Suture

Management Of The Partial Lesions Of The Fingers Flexor Tendons, Prospective Randomized Trial Of 2 Surgical Procedures: Tangential Resection Versus Direct Suture

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 3 (actual)
• Sponsor: University Hospital, Strasbourg, France · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Flexors tendon injuries are frequent and serious with a potential of definitive functional aftereffects. In the case of partial injury, the treatment is debated. There are 2 techniques of possible repair, the direct suture and the tangential resection. The investigators have already demonstrated that this last technique was favorable for injuries going to 50 %. In the case of partial section between 50 and 75 %, the investigators think that the technique of tangential resection compared with the direct suture would not increase the risks of secondary breaks, would authorize even an immediate mobilization and would decrease the secondary complications. The main objective is to highlight that the tangential resection is not lower than the classic technique on the clinical plan The secondary objectives are to highlight the non-inferiority of the tangential technique in clinical terms (pains, dexterity, complications), radiologics (MRI, ultrasound) and functional (function, go back to leisures and professional activities)

Conditions

• Flexor Tendon Injury
• Lesions Of The Fingers Flexor Tendons

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	tangential resection	the tendon's injury is treated with a tangential resection performed with a surgical blade N°11 The shape of the tangential resection was adapted such that the cross-section disappered
PROCEDURE	suture

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-02-01
• Primary completion: 2019-02-01
• Completion: 2019-02-01
• First posted: 2015-06-03
• Last updated: 2019-08-21

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France