Removable essentially cylindrical implants
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1. A removable implant, comprising an implant body;
- at least one flexible, thin wire-shaped structure having a portion slidably wrapped at least once about the implant body; and
a catch device provided on an end of the structure, said slidable portion of the structure configured to shorten as the catch device is pulled in the longitudinal direction;
wherein the implant body is reducible in diameter, at least partially by pulling the catch device in a longitudinal direction and shortening the slidable portion of the structure wrapped about the implant body.
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Abstract
The invention relates to removable, essentially cylindrical implants which are characterized in that they can be reduced in diameter and are wrapped once or several times at one or more levels by one or more elastic, thin wire-shaped structure(s) (2a, 2b) which include(s) a catch device (3a, 3b) at least on one end thereof.
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1. A removable implant, comprising an implant body;
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at least one flexible, thin wire-shaped structure having a portion slidably wrapped at least once about the implant body; and a catch device provided on an end of the structure, said slidable portion of the structure configured to shorten as the catch device is pulled in the longitudinal direction; wherein the implant body is reducible in diameter, at least partially by pulling the catch device in a longitudinal direction and shortening the slidable portion of the structure wrapped about the implant body. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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