Corrective osteotomy with virtual planning of malunited forearm fractures with and without the use of patient specific guides: a randomized controlled trial
Completed
- Conditions
- angulated arm after fractureMalunited fracture10005944
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 30
Inclusion Criteria
- Malunion after radius and/or ulna fracture
- Less than 50 degrees of pronation and/or supination
- Complaints of the forearm
- Age of at least 6 years
- Full consolidation of the fractures
- Informed consent for participation in the study
Exclusion Criteria
- Relevant deviations of the contralateral arm
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <p>• Postoperative improvement in pronation and supination.</p><br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <p>• Possibility to use boneMRI for the planning of the osteotomy.<br /><br>• Postoperative improvement in subjectively experienced limitations.<br /><br>• Postoperative reduction of pain.<br /><br>• Postoperative improvement of cosmetics.<br /><br>• Postoperative satisfaction.<br /><br>• Usefulness of preoperative MRI for imaging of soft tissue scarring.</p><br>