Juul Achten, Duncan Appelbe, Louise Spoors, Nicholas Peckham, Rebecca Kandiyali, James Mason, David Ferguson, James Wright, Nicola Wilson, Jennifer Preston, Amy Moscrop, Matthew Costa, Daniel C Perry
AIMS: The management of fractures of the medial epicondyle is one of the greatest controversies in paediatric fracture care, with uncertainty concerning the need for surgery. The British Society of Children's Orthopaedic Surgery prioritized this as their most important research question in paediatric trauma. This is the protocol for a randomized controlled, multicentre, prospective superiority trial of operative fixation versus nonoperative treatment for displaced medial epicondyle fractures: the Surgery or Cast of the EpicoNdyle in Children's Elbows (SCIENCE) trial...
January 25, 2024: Bone & joint open