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Register: PACTR
Last refreshed on: 29 April 2013
Main ID:  PACTR201205000381245
Date of registration: 10/05/2012
Primary sponsor: Cairo University Hospitals
Public title: Proximal Humeral Fractures Treated with Hemiarthroplasty. Does Tenodesis of the Long Head of the Biceps Improve Results?
Scientific title: Proximal Humeral Fractures Treated with Hemiarthroplasty. Does Tenodesis of the Long Head of the Biceps Improve Results?
Date of first enrolment: 2005-06-01
Target sample size: 45
Recruitment status: Completed: recruitment & data analysis complete
URL:  HTTP://www.pactr.org/ATMWeb/appmanager/atm/atmregistry?da=true&tno=PACTR201205000381245
Study type:  interventional
Study design:  Single group: all participants receive same intervention throughout study,
Randomised,
A computer generated random number sequence,
After enrollment, cases were sequentially arranged and plotted on the random number table to determine to which group they will be assigned.,
 
Countries of recruitment
South Africa
Contacts
Name: Wael  Koptan
Address:  60 Gezzirat El Arab Street, Mohandeseen 12411 Geiza Egypt
Telephone: 002-012-23118522
Email: waelkoptan@gmail.com
Affiliation:  Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine Cairo University, Egypt
Name: Wael  Koptan
Address:  60 Gezzirat El Arab Street, Mohandeseen 12411 Geiza Egypt
Telephone: 002-012-23118522
Email: waelkoptan@gmail.com
Affiliation:  Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine Cairo University, Egypt
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Patients with four- part fractures of the proximal humerus, fracture dislocations or head splitting fractures
Patients presenting within the first five days after injury

Exclusion criteria: After 3 months postoperatively:
- Tuberosity malposition
- Inferior subluxation of the prosthesis
- Loss of reduction of the greater tuberosity
- Deep infection which slowed down the physiotherapy protocol and required surgical debridement


Age minimum: 45 Year
Age maximum: 60 Year
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

Proximal Humeral Fractures
Intervention(s)
Primary Outcome(s)
'Costant' Scoring System
Secondary Outcome(s)
Secondary ID(s)
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Cairo University Hospitals
Secondary Sponsor(s)
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