Size of Stent (IMAGE)

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Size of Stent

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Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine are now studying an investigational treatment for emphysema, an airway bypass procedure. Physicians create new small pathways using a special needle to make small openings. Stents, like the one pictured here, are then put in place to keep the new passageways open in the lungs.

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Courtesy: Broncus Technologies, Inc.

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