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... patient treatment stainless steel titanium alloys This paper describes the design of the single entry tunneler (SET), devised to create a loop-shaped path in forearm subcutaneous tissue prior to placement of a vascular graft for hemodialysis access. Existing tunnelers are almost universally rigid...

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