A TECHNIQUE FOR PORCINE FLEXOR TENDON HARVEST

Abstract

There is a growing body of work on the ex vivo tensile testing of tendon repairs, an appreciable amount of which are performed on cadaveric porcine flexor tendons. However, there is little information in the literature on exactly how to perform the dissections necessary to obtain flexor tendons from porcine trotters. We present a simple method to rapidly harvest tendons from the porcine foot, allowing large amounts of material to be harvested in little time for the purpose of tensile testing of tendon repairs.