title: The Socratic attic, where much of the future of the stent was hatched.
abstract: Although he makes no claim to be a pioneer, Prof. Patrick Serruys,who recently retired as Chief of Interventional Cardiology at the Thoraxcenter, Rotterdam, and his colleagues have taken the simple idea of the stent to new heights, and in the process produced an original paper once every few days, reports Barry Shurlock PhD.
authors.forename: Barry
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Shurlock
mesh_terms: D015906:Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary / Q000266:history; D002309:Cardiology / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D009426:Netherlands; D015607:Stents / Q000266:history*