Paterson D A, Davies J D
University Department of Pathology, Bristol Royal Infirmary.
J Clin Pathol. 1988 Sep;41(9):1013-6. doi: 10.1136/jcp.41.9.1013.
The performance of carbon and metallic inks, silver nitrate solution, and artists' pigments mounted in acetone was compared for marking the surface of surgical biopsy specimens. Using India ink is an unsatisfactory procedure because of slow drying, messiness, and spreading of the ink. It is concluded that use of artists' pigments has many advantages over other reagents, because of their rapid drying, resistance to tissue processing, and the ability to mark simultaneously many different planes of excision. Furthermore, the pigments are readily visible, are distinguishable from each other on microscopical examination, and the method entails little extra cost.
比较了碳素和金属墨水、硝酸银溶液以及丙酮中的艺术家颜料用于标记手术活检标本表面的性能。使用印度墨水是一种不理想的方法，因为墨水干燥缓慢、 messy且会扩散。得出的结论是，使用艺术家颜料比其他试剂有许多优点，因为它们干燥迅速、耐组织处理，并且能够同时标记许多不同的切除平面。此外，这些颜料很容易看到，在显微镜检查中彼此可区分，而且该方法几乎不增加额外成本。 （注：原文中“messiness”直接保留英文未翻译，不太明确其准确意思，可能是“ messy”拼写错误，推测原文想表达“messy”，意为“凌乱、脏乱”，这里按推测翻译为“凌乱”）
