1.   Doctors may also place a stent, or small stainless steel mesh tube, in the artery to keep it open.

2.   Once there, they place the mesh tube in the vessel, expand it, and free up blood flow to the brain.

3.   The device would be the biggest advance in stent technology since the tiny wire mesh tubes were first approved to prop open clogged arteries.

4.   The doctors performed an angioplasty, a procedure that opens the artery, and implanted a stent, a mesh tube that keeps the blood vessel open.

5.   These long mesh tubes have a slit to drop money in.

6.   They inflated a balloon on the tip of a catheter to open the blocked artery and to place a mesh tube or stent to keep the artery open.

7.   Urethral stent, or mesh tube, to hold urethra open when prostate gland is enlarged.

8.   Doctors frequently insert a mesh tube called a stent to keep the arteries propped open.

9.   The birds have access to the outside world through a mesh tube, but they always return to their aviary and its abundant food supply, Stone said.

10.   In the second operation last March, a stainless-steel mesh tube called a stent was inserted into the artery.