The present invention provides a delivery system for deploying an embolization coil. The delivery system comprises a delivery tube, a flexible sleeve extending distally from the delivery tube, and a mandril slidably disposed in the lumens of the delivery tube and the flexible sleeve. The present invention also provides an embolization coil delivery assembly comprising the delivery system of the present invention and an embolization coil. A proximal portion of the embolization coil is frictionally engaged by the flexible sleeve of the delivery system. The present invention also provides a method for positioning and deploying an embolization coil at a deployment site in a patients vasculature using the delivery assembly of the present invention.
