Development of a polymer stent with shape memory effect as a drug delivery system
- 1 January 2003
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine
- Vol. 14 (2), 109-112
- https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1022007510352
Abstract
The article presents a new concept for vascular endoprothesis (stent). Almost all commercially available stents are made of metallic materials. A common after effect of stent implantation is...Keywords
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