# Volar Locking Plate Versus External Fixator/Cast Fixation for the Treatment of Distal Radius Fractures

> **NCT00809861** · NA · COMPLETED · sponsor: **Mackay Base Hospital** · enrollment: 52 (actual)

## Conditions studied

- Distal Radius Fractures

## Interventions

- **PROCEDURE:** volar locking plating
- **PROCEDURE:** external immobilisation

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT00809861
- **Lead sponsor:** Mackay Base Hospital
- **Sponsor class:** OTHER
- **Phase:** NA
- **Study type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Status:** COMPLETED
- **Start date:** 2008-08
- **Primary completion:** 2013-12
- **Final completion:** 2013-12
- **Target enrollment:** 52 (ACTUAL)
- **Last updated:** 2014-05-29

## Collaborators

- [object Object]

## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00809861

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT00809861, "Volar Locking Plate Versus External Fixator/Cast Fixation for the Treatment of Distal Radius Fractures". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-08-11 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT00809861. Licensed CC0.

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