NCT03112447

Treatment of Medial Humeral Epicondyle Fractures in Children With Absorbable Cartilage Nails

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 32 (actual)
• Sponsor: Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 8 Years – 14 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

To compare surgical outcomes from medial epicondyle fracture fixation with absorbable cartilage nails to those from traditional Kirschner wire fixation.

Detailed description

From August 2007 to January 2012, 32 patients undergoing surgery for medial humeral epicondyle fractures in our hospital were randomized into group A (traditional Kirschner wire) or group B (absorbable cartilage nail). The same surgical team performed the operations, and patients were followed for over a year. Group A had open reduction with K-wire fixation, and group B was fixed with absorbable cartilage nails. The Bede scoring system was used to evaluate elbow function at follow-up.

Conditions

• Fracture Arm

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	absorbable cartilage nail	The experiment group patients were fixed with absorbable cartilage nails
PROCEDURE	traditional Kirschner wires	The control group were fixed with traditional Kirschner wires

Timeline

• Start date: 2007-08-01
• Primary completion: 2012-08-01
• Completion: 2012-08-01
• First posted: 2017-04-13
• Last updated: 2017-04-13