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Bone & Joint Research
Vol. 1, Issue 3 | Pages 36 - 41
1 Mar 2012
An ink surgical marker pen is damaging to tendon cells
Franklin SL Jayadev C Poulsen R Hulley P Price A
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Objectives

Surgical marking during tendon surgery is often used for technical and teaching purposes. This study investigates the effect of a gentian violet ink marker pen, a common surgical marker, on the viability of the tissue and cells of tendon.

Methods

In vitro cell and tissue methods were used to test the viability of human hamstring explants and the migrating tenocytes in the presence of the gentian violet ink.