摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a means to allow smoother operation, in any one of the introduction and recovery of a treatment device (preferably both). <P>SOLUTION: A guiding catheter 1 includes: a flexible tube 10 having a lumen 12a communicating from a proximal end side to a distal end side; and an expandable/contractible expansion part B arranged not to be all-round on the distal end part of the flexible tube 10. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2012,JPO&INPIT |