[Palmaz's vascular intraluminal stent. Preliminary results]

Palmaz's stent is a fenestrated, expansible metallic stent with an apparently small tendency to thrombogenesis, so that anticoagulants are necessary only during the preintimalization period. This stent has recently been introduced in human pathology and has been used in this study for percutaneous or surgical correction of residual or recurrent post-angioplasty lesions. The development, theoretical indications and preliminary results obtained with the insertion of 25 Palmaz's stents into peripheral arteries are presented.