Fluorescent Tetracycline Labeling as an Aid to Debridement of Necrotic Bone in the Treatment of Chronic Osteomyelitis : Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma

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Fluorescent Tetracycline Labeling as an Aid to Debridement of Necrotic Bone in the Treatment of Chronic Osteomyelitis

Dahners, Laurence E.; Bos, Gary D.

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Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma 16(5):p 345-346, May 2002.

Abstract

The authors have found that several months of preoperative tetracycline administration will label living bone so that it fluoresces under a blacklight during surgery. This allows intraoperative differentiation of viable bone from necrotic sequestra, which require removal in the treatment of chronic bone infection.

© 2002 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc.

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