CT Analysis of the Patellofemoral Joint in Patients Having Knee Surgery

Completed

Conditions studied: Patellar (or Kneecap) Instability and Mal-alignment

In brief

The primary hypothesis is that measures of patellofemoral alignment obtained from the investigational cone beam CT scanner will be reduced, but still correlated to those obtained from the conventional CT scan.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02257099

Run by

State University of New York at Buffalo

People needed

20

Starts

2015-02-01

Expected to finish

2016-03-01

Last updated by the study team

2019-10-03

Who can join

Age: 16 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patients who have been diagnosed with acute or chronic patellar malalignment.
• At least 16 years old
• Be willing and able to provide informed consent

You may not qualify if…

• Open growth plates
• Previous knee surgery on the affected knee
• Pregnancy (females)
• Fracture of the patellofemoral joint
• Knee ligament injury (other than medial patellofemoral ligament)
• Have greater than Grade II degenerative changes of the patellofemoral joint
• Inability to bear weight on the extremity during the CT scan

Where it is running

• UBMD Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine, Northtowns office — Amherst, New York, United States
• UBMD Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine, Southtowns Office — Orchard Park, New York, United States

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