"With the Zenith device, we basically make little incisions into the femoral artery and the device is introduced through a catheter system."

— Barry Thomas, vice president of Cook (Bloomington, Indiana), discussing his company's new Zenith TX2 graft to treat thoracic aortic aneurysms, "FDA okays Cook's graft for repair of thoracic aneurysms," pp. 1, 7.