Carrying Angle From Birth to Adolescents

Mahidol University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Birth

Treatments: Other: no intervention

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03546348

si684/2013

Details and patient eligibility

About

The carrying angle in the elbow in children is very important.Most of the results of treatment in fracture around the elbow have to measure the carrying angle.The common deformity of the elbow from cubitus varus is the change of the carrying of the elbow.There are many researches studied in normal value of the carrying angle but few had study the carrying angle from birth to adolescent.This study want to compare the carrying angle in different age and gain the knowledge of development of the carrying angle in children

Full description

The study is to measure the carrying angle of the children from birth to adolescents

Enrollment: 30 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 1 day to 16 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• normal children age 0 day to 16 years old
• Thai nationality

Exclusion criteria

• no history of fracture around the elbow or upper extremity
• no congenital anomalies or abnormal bone that interfere the upper extremity
• no genetic diseases and skeletal dysplasia
• no deformity of the elbow or upper extremity
• refuse to enrolled in the study