Treatment Of Supracondylar Fractures Closed Reduction And Circular Ring External Fixation Versus Open Reduction and Internal Fixation

Withdrawn before enrolling

Conditions studied: Supracondylar Humerus Fractures

In brief

Patients treated with circular external fixation will have better outcomes (as measured by range of motion (ROM), alignment, outcome surveys) than those treated with open reduction and internal fixation (ORIF).

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02196311

Run by

Baylor College of Medicine

People needed

0

Starts

2014-03-01

Expected to finish

2017-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2020-11-12

Who can join

Age: 12 and older, up to 18. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• 12 and 18 years old
• Supracondylar/periarticular humerus fracture needed operative fixation
• Fracture is unable to be treated with percutaneous skeletal fixation.

You may not qualify if…

• Any previous elbow injury
• Osteogenesis imperfecta or another fragile bone disease
• Elbow stiffness from another cause
• Any pre-existing arm weakness.

Where it is running

• Texas Children's Hospital — Houston, Texas, United States

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