An expandable intraluminal endoprosthesis including a tubular member (1) a
first diameter which permits intraluminal delivery of the member into a
lumen of a body passageway, particularly a blood vessel. The tubular
member (1) is capable of acquiring a second, expanded and deformed
diameter upon the application from the interior of the tubular member of
a radially outwardly extending force, which second diameter is variable
and dependent on the amount of the force applied to the tubular member.
Such a tubular member may be expanded and deformed to expand the lumen of
the body passageway. The wall of the tubular member includes a
substantially continuous structure (2) of mutually staggered undulations.
This structure has been separated from a tube wall and exhibits at lest
one pattern which advances substantially helically along a longitudinal
axis of the tubular member. Connection elements within the structure
connect adjacent undulations to each other. These connection elements are
an integral extension of the undulations thereby interconnected.