Prevention of skin and soft tissue entrapment in tibial segment transportation

We report of a ten year old patient with soft tissue damage and bone defect of the tibia as a sequel of osteomyelitis. After excision and stabilizatio n with an Ilizarov fixateur segment transportation was started. In order to avoid skin and soft tissue entrapment in the docking region, we used a met al cage as a space provider, which was shortened as segment transportation progressed. To our knowledge this simple method has not been described so f ar.