DILATOR AND INTRODUCER ASSEMBLY

摘要

A resiliently flexible body vessel or body cavity dilator (10) that tapers towards one end (12) and a transition zone (14) that decreases in flexibility along the dilator away from the one end (12). The dilator (10 ) can comprise a dilator arranged to be slid over a guidewire (32) for use in the placement of an intraluminal graft bridging an aortic aneurysm. The dilator can also comprise an inner core of relatively stiff material (21) surrounded by an outer layer of resiliently flexible material (23).