EDAP Technomed Selects American MedTech for Nationwide Urology Treatment Equipment Maintenance Services.

BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BW HealthWire)--Sept. 18, 1997--

Strategic Alliance Cost-Effectively Expands EDAP Technomed's Customer Support Infrastructure For Its Minimally Invasive Urology Treatment

Products And Systems

EDAP Technomed, Inc. (NASD:EDAPY) today announced that it has selected American MedTech Services, Inc., to provide nationwide maintenance services for the Company's minimally invasive medical equipment product lines. This strategic alliance will enable EDAP Technomed to cost-effectively expand its existing direct support team of service engineers, as it prepares for continued growth. The Company has provided direct service support for its full line of urology products in the U.S. since 1987.

"Our customers in the urology community expect and deserve the highest quality support possible," said Robert Minton, president of EDAP Technomed, Inc. "Our relationship with American MedTech will enable us to offer our customers the most highly trained and experienced team of service engineers in the country."

"It is a pleasure to be teaming with EDAP Technomed in providing comprehensive support and maintenance to their customers," said Joseph Fazio, chairman of American MedTech Services, Inc. "We believe our single-focus in providing urology equipment maintenance is a natural fit with EDAP Technomed's minimally invasive urologic technology."

The partnership will be phased in between now and the end of this calendar year, and will cover EDAP Technomed's full range of urology treatment products and systems. Among these products is Prostatron(R), the first medical device approved by the FDA for TransUrethral Microwave Thermotherapy (TUMT)(R), a one-hour, non-surgical procedure for the treatment of symptomatic benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), or the non-cancerous enlargement of the prostate which naturally occurs in men over age 60. Also covered by the agreement is EDAP Technomed's broad installed base of lithotripsy devices for non-surgical kidney stone treatment.

Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, American MedTech Services, Inc. is a dedicated urology equipment maintenance services provider. Contact American MedTech for more information by phone at [phone]; or fax [phone].

Headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts, EDAP Technomed, Inc. is the U.S. operating company of publicly held Paris, France-based EDAP TMS SA (NASD:EDAPY), a world leader in the fields of thermotherapy and lithotripsy. EDAP Technomed is an international company dedicated to developing, manufacturing and marketing minimally invasive medical devices for patients suffering from conditions such as benign prostatic hyperplasia and kidney stones. Contact EDAP Technomed for more information by phone at [phone]; fax [phone]; or on the World Wide Web at http://www.edaptechnomed.com .

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