IPC Main Group
A61F 2/00 Filters implantable into blood vessels; Prostheses, i.e. artificial substitutes or replacements for parts of the body; Appliances for connecting them with the body; Devices providing patency to, or preventing collapsing of, tubular structures of the body, e.g. stents
Introduced: January 1985
Last revised: January 2006
Classification Context
- Section:
- HUMAN NECESSITIES
- Class:
- MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
- Subclass:
- FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; PROSTHESES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF, TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, e.g. STENTS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; FOMENTATION; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; FIRST-AID KITS
Scope Notes
Limiting references: Dental prostheses Artificial kidneys Artificial hearts
Related Keywords
ARTIFICIAL body parts in generalartificial LIMBSPROSTHESES
5 direct subcodes
Child Classifications
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- A61F 2/01 Filters implantable into blood vessels
- A61F 2/02 Prostheses implantable into the body
- A61F 2/5 Prostheses not implantable in the body
- A61F 2/82 Devices providing patency to, or preventing collapsing of, tubular structures of the body, e.g. stents
- A61F 2/95 Instruments specially adapted for placement or removal of stents or stent-grafts