• Matheus Lemos Azi, Armando Augusto de Almeida Teixeira, Ricardo Britto Cotias, Alexander Joeris, and Mauricio Kfuri Junior.
• Manoel Victorino Hospital, Secretary of Health for the State of Bahia, Conselheiro Almeida Couto square S/N, 40050-410, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Electronic address: mlazi@hotmail.com.
• Injury. 2017 Oct 1; 48 Suppl 4: S17-S20.

IntroductionWe report a case of an infected bone defect in the tibia in which the treatment was stopped in the first stage of the induced membrane technique. The polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) spacer, retained in the bone defect, was encapsulated by the bone regeneration.Case ReportA 37-year-old male patient with a 7-cm infected bone defect in the tibia was submitted to the first stage of the induced membrane technique with debridement and implantation of a PMMA spacer with antibiotics. The patient refused the second stage of the procedure and achieved bone union with the spacer in situ. There was no recurrence of infection at the 6-year follow-up.Conclusionhis is the first report of a case in which bone union was achieved with the spacer in situ after the first stage of the induced membrane technique. Keeping the spacer in the bone defect could be an option in some exceptional situations.© 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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