Active, not recruitingNo phase
Trapeziectomy vs. Trapeziometacarpal Limited Excision for Thumb Base Osteoarthritis
Key facts
- Who runs it
- Karolinska Institutet
- Where
- Sweden1 site in 1 countryChoose a country to see its sites
- Trial code
- Status
- Active, not recruiting
- People taking part
- 90 people, planned
- Started
- 9 Mar 2020
- Expected to end
- 30 May 2028
- Type of study
- Interventional, 2 groupsOne group gets an existing treatment, for comparison.
- Treatments tested
- trapeziometacarpal limited excision
- Trapeziectomy
- Record updated
- 10 August 2026
Who can take part
- Age
- 18 years and older
- Sex
- Women and men
- Healthy volunteers
- Cannot take part
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- Painful osteoarthritis in the thumb base and radiological arthritis (Eaton Littler class 2-3) and clinical signs of thumb base osteoarthritis (pain at palpation of the thumb base joint and pain during grinding test)
- Pain at rest
- Conservative treatment >6 months (activity modification, splinting, painkillers or thumb base steroid or PRP injection)
Who cannot take part
- Ongoing infection in the hand or wrist. -
- History of gout or pseudo gout
- Inability to co-operate with the follow-up protocol (language difficulties, severe psychiatric disorder, cognitive impairment, drug addiction)
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Intra-articular injection in the affected joint within 6 months
- Eaton Littler class 4 (STT joint involved)
This trial has no sites in United States.
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About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
A randomized comparison between trapeziectomy and trapeziometacarpal limited excision for thumb base osteoarthritis in 90 patients.
The 2 groups in the trial
- TrapeziectomyExisting treatment, for comparison
Standard simple trapeziectomy, no pins.
- trapeziometacarpal limited excisionExisting treatment, for comparison
Trapeziometacarpal limited excision; Narrow pseudarthrosis of the trapeziometacarpal joint.
Data and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- A Randomized Comparison Between Trapeziectomy and Trapeziometacarpal Limited Excision for Thumb Base Osteoarthritis
- Record updated
- 10 August 2026