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AU2001279819A1 - Implant with attached element and method of making such an implant - Google Patents

Implant with attached element and method of making such an implant

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AU2001279819A1
AU2001279819A1 AU2001279819A AU7981901A AU2001279819A1 AU 2001279819 A1 AU2001279819 A1 AU 2001279819A1 AU 2001279819 A AU2001279819 A AU 2001279819A AU 7981901 A AU7981901 A AU 7981901A AU 2001279819 A1 AU2001279819 A1 AU 2001279819A1
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implant
making
attached element
major surface
attached
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Arne Briest
Sylvie Lombardi
Wolfgang Supper
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Angiomed GmbH and Co Medizentechnik KG
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Angiomed GmbH and Co Medizentechnik KG
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Abstract

A tubular implant to which is attached a plurality of radiopaque markers, each marker having a luminal major surface and an abluminal major surface that define a portion of a cylinder, and the markers being distributed around the circumference of the tubular implant.
AU2001279819A 2000-08-18 2001-08-16 Implant with attached element and method of making such an implant Abandoned AU2001279819A1 (en)

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