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

Chongqing Medical University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Fracture Arm

Treatments: Procedure: traditional Kirschner wires; Procedure: absorbable cartilage nail

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03112447

CHChongqingMU2016

Details and patient eligibility

About

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

Full 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.

Enrollment: 32 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 8 to 14 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• fractures with more than 2 mm of displacement were treated with cast immobilization

Exclusion criteria

• fractures with less than 2 mm of displacement were treated with cast immobilization

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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32 participants in 2 patient groups

absorbable cartilage nail Group

Experimental group

Description:

10 males and 7 females, ages 7-15 years (average, 11.8), and 3 patients with elbow dislocation, the fractures were fixed by absorbable cartilage nail

Treatment:

Procedure: absorbable cartilage nail

traditional Kirschner wire Group

Active Comparator group

Description:

10 males and 5 females, ages 8-14 years (average, 12.6), and 4 patients with elbow dislocation, the fractures were fixed by traditional Kirschner wires

Treatment:

Procedure: traditional Kirschner wires