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Case report: perforation of angioplasty balloon by Palmaz stent
1Department of Radiology, Northern General Hospital, Sheffield.
Clinical Radiology
|August 1, 1992
Abstract:
Intravascular stents are recognized to be of value in maintaining patency in resistant stenoses, recanalized occlusions, and when intimal dissection has occurred during balloon angioplasty [1,2,3]. Apart from early thrombosis, complications are relatively infrequent. We report a case of perforation of an angioplasty balloon during iliac angioplasty by a Palmaz stent sited in the contralateral iliac artery.