sheet for use as a metallic reinforcing component may comprise any pattern of openings or apertures of regular or irregular shape the openings or apertures need not of course extend to the edges of the metallic sheet as shown in fig7 a patterned metallic sheet may be coated with a biodegradable polymeric material to provide a biodegradable polymeric material coating layer as described above in reference to the coating of knitted woven braided or coiled metallic filaments more than one such biodegradable polymeric material coating layer may be provided and two or more of such multiple layers may comprise different polymeric materials have different thicknesses and or different rates of biodegradation as discussed above any of the foregoing metallic reinforcing components of the present invention may be provided within a laminated structure comprising two or more layers of biodegradable polymeric material fig9 a is a partial cross sectional view of a tubular laminated structure 80 useful for forming an intraluminal stent of the present invention tubular laminated structure 80 comprises inner and outer layers 81 and 82 respectively of biodegradable polymeric material with metallic reinforcing component 83 disposed therebetween fig9 b is an expanded view of the circled region 84 shown in fig9 a any of the two or more layers of biodegradable polymeric material in.