1. New Tubular Bioabsorbable Knitted Airway Stent: Feasibility Assessment for Delivery and Deployment in a Dog Model 
Yukihito Saito, MD, Ken-ichiro Minami, MD, Hiroyuki Kaneda, MD, Takayuki Okada, MD, Tomohiro Maniwa, MD, Yoshiro Araki, MD, Hiroji Imamura, MD, Hirokazu Yamada, PhD, Keiji Igaki, PhD, Hideo Tamai, MD 
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 
Volume 78, Issue 4, Pages (October 2004)
DOI: /S (03)

2. Fig 1
Poly-L-lactic acid stent knitted, tubular form with shape-memory plasticity.
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3. Fig 2
Stent delivery system. (A) Schema of stent delivery system. (B) Stent was wrapped around the expansion site of balloon catheter.
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4. Fig 3
Stent delivery and deployment in normal dog airway. (A) Catheter advanced; (B) stent delivered; (C) stent deployed; (D) stent expanded, 3 days.
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5. Fig 4
Poly-L-lactic acid stent was covered with tracheal mucosa one month after deployment.
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