Skin marker for use in biopsy excisions

• US 4,576,163 A
• Filed: 08/08/1983
• Issued: 03/18/1986
• Est. Priority Date: 08/08/1983
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Robert J. Bliss
• Original Assignee: Robert J. Bliss
• Inventors: Bliss, Robert J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Peshock, Robert
• Application Number:
  US06/521,334
• Time in Patent Office: 953 Days
• Field of Search: 128/316, 128/305, 128/305.5, 128/751
• US Class Current: 606/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/32 Surgical cutting instruments A61B18/042 takes precedence; suture cutters A61B17/0467; instruments for ligaturing or cutting A61B17/128; instruments for rupturing the amniotic membrane A61B17/4208; specially adapted knives for eye surgery A61F9/0133
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2090/395 with marking agent for marking skin or other tissue

Abstract

A surgical instrument for marking a pattern on the skin of a patient to first guide a surgeon in subsequently incising procedure to acquire an excision by a biopsy, or surgical debridement, with the use of a surgical cutting instrument, and secondly, provide guide indicia for accurately suturing or closing the excision defect to provide a straight hairline scar.

Claims

1. A skin marker for surgical purposes, comprising a hollow member of material sufficiently rigid to leave a marking on the skin of a patient after being pressed edgewise thereagainst,

said members being formed of a pair of initially flat blanks disposed on edge with their ends secured tightly together and each blank being outwardly bowed centrally thereof to define a bottom edge having an excision pattern converging to a point at each end from a widened central area to leave a defect after incision that may be closed to provide a fine line straight scar,

each blank of said pair being a mirror image of each other with each blank having at least one suture guide marker extending outwardly of each blank, the bottom edge of said marker being in the same plane as said bottom edge of said blank.

2. The skin marker of claim 1 wherein each of said blanks have three spaced suture markers.

3. The skin marker of claim 1 wherein each of said ends of said blanks include an outwardly extending tab, the bottom of said tabs recessed above said bottom edge.