onto the plaque surface needs to be incorporated traditional metal stenting creates scaffolding with relatively high radial forces such radial forces are ultimately undesirable as they lead to increased injury to the vessel wall as evidenced by restenosis such radial forces are eliminated when lower forces are required to expand the prosthesis although another method of fixation is required to prevent migration and collapse of the stent if a self expandable structure is used the vascular prosthesis must posses a structural mechanism that allows the edges of the device to anchor at the borders of the plaque therefore stabilizing the shoulders where the strain forces are the highest and slightly compressing the center of the lesion where the plaque components are more abundant figure while other more traumatic options are available such as stapling suturing crimping etc a less invasive and non toxic adhesive type bond is preferred the novel prosthesis therefore incorporates an adhesive layer affixed to deposited onto or incorporated within the structural matrix examples of potential adhesives include gelatin redu formalin grf photosensitive glues vitamin e cyanoacrylate photosensitive acrylics nafthalimide crosslink with vessel tissue fixation to the vessel may be provided by one or more of the following mechanisms 1 curing binding cross linking of molecular bonds proteins etc via applied light energy example 405 nm light and naftalimide 2 curing binding cross linking of molecular bonds proteins etc via thermal energy applied removed or locally available 3 curing activated from contact with local tissues and fluids e g water 4 adhesive catalyst or activator delivered locally via.