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Stent configurations

  • US 6,416,538 B1
  • Filed: 05/21/1999
  • Issued: 07/09/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/09/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A stent of generally cylindrical shape and having a longitudinal axis comprising interconnected regularly arranged curvilinear bodies, the curvilinear bodies providing individual closed expansion cells, the cells having relatively wide end portions joined by a relatively narrow center portion, the end portions of a cell longitudinally displaced from one another, the cells being arranged end portion to end portion longitudinally with respect to the longitudinal axis of the stent, the curvilinear bodies being interconnected by one or more interconnecting elements which extend from one curvilinear body to another.

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