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Vascular stents

  • US 20030114920A1
  • Filed: 09/16/2002
  • Published: 06/19/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/21/1999
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A vascular stent comprising a body of resiliently flexible material defining a generally hollow tubular structure of discontinuous external surface, in which adjacent parts of the body are spaced apart when the stent is in an unflexed condition, a plurality of said parts of the body being linked together by joining segments, at least some of said joining segments being present along the length of the body, a major part of said at least some joining segments being displaced away from the said discontinuous external surface of the stent.

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