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Little Data on Stent’s Most Common Use

Date: January 21, 2008

Author: Barnaby J. Feder

QUOTE: ...reports to the Food and Drug Administration of problems with the devices, known as biliary stents, suggest that their off-label use in arteries is injuring hundreds and perhaps thousands of patients.

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• Dr. William H. Maisel MD, MPH

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• Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
• Medtronic
• New York Times Company

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• North America
  • United States of America/USA

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