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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2022
Filed:
Jan. 18, 2016
Aesculap Ag, Tuttlingen, DE;
Jens Beger, Tuttlingen, DE;
Ulrike Pfeiffer, Muehlheim, DE;
Richard Stacey, Oxford, GB;
Thomas Cadoux-Hudson, Oxford, GB;
Tobias Wäschle, Koenigsheim, DE;
Christian Grimm, Tuttlingen, DE;
Frank-Markus Storz, Tuttlingen, DE;
Francis Kilian, Emmelshausen, DE;
AESCULAP AG, Tuttlingen, DE;
Abstract
A stent retractor/distractor includes a radially flexibly enlargeable, pipe-shaped sheath which is divided up in the circumferential direction in at least two sections, namely one stiffening section and one enlarging section with differing radial flexibilities, which are connected with each other in one piece of material. The stent retractor/distractor defined in that way is made on the whole by a laser or water jet cutting procedure, preferably from a pipe blank.