Cast or Operation for Medial Epicondyle Fracture Treatment in Children
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Official title
Operative Versus Nonoperative Treatment of Pediatric Medial Epicondyle Fractures (COMET Trial - Cast or Operation for Medial Epicondyle Fracture Treatment in Children)
Brief summary
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This protocol describes a multicenter, prospective randomized and patient preference cohort superiority trial of medial epicondyle fracture treatments comparing functional outcomes between children treated with operative reduction and fixation or non-operative immobilization.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT05131672
- Recruitment status
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 334 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Interventions
- open reduction and internal fixation (ORIF) Procedure
- cast immobilization Procedure
Procedure
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 7 Years to 17 Years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Oct 27, 2022
- Primary completion
- Dec 30, 2030
- Completion
- Jul 30, 2031
- Last update posted
- Jun 30, 2026
2022 – 2031
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 1
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 1
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lurie Children's Hospital | Chicago | Illinois | 60611 | Recruiting |
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- Last refresh
- Last update posted Jun 30, 2026 · Synced Sep 5, 2026
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