Bellows medical construct and apparatus and method for using same
US6001117A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Mar 19, 1998 |
| Grant date | Dec 14, 1999 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 19, 2018 |
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- Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
- CPC primaryA61F2/04
- WIPO fieldMedical technology
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A medical construct particularly useful as a stent, comprising an axially compressible bellows of a material and dimensions sufficient to provide negligible resistance to flexure transverse to the axis and negligible recoil under compression or expansion along the axis, and apparatus and a method for deploying the same.
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