Very stiff guide wire with a floppy tip.
Many interventional procedures, particularly dilation of tracts, require stiff guide wires with a floppy tip. Such a guide wire was specially constructed and is commercially available.
D001652:Bile Ducts / Q000601:surgery; D004106:Dilatation / Q000295:instrumentation*; D006801:Humans; D014517:Ureteral Obstruction / Q000601:surgery*