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Expandable coil stent

  • US 7,033,385 B2
  • Filed: 07/01/2003
  • Issued: 04/25/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/28/2001
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A coil stent comprising a plurality of arcing segments and expandable links which together form a spiral which extends about a longitudinal axis of the stent, arcing segments connected by expandable links, the expandable links extending generally along the spiral, each expandable link having a longitudinal component which shrinks in a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis on expansion of the stent.

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