1.   Exploratory surgery revealed her liver cancer.

2.   He underwent exploratory surgery last week.

3.   An elderly Kentucky woman known from C.T. scans to have malignant-looking lesions in her brain dies before undergoing exploratory surgery.

4.   Anchrum was scheduled for exploratory arthroscopic surgery this morning by team physician Dr. James Tibone.

5.   A biopsy could occur Wednesday with the use of arthroscopic surgery, a needle, or exploratory surgery.

6.   After standard tests failed to reveal an injury, Van Exel decided to have exploratory arthroscopic surgery, which was performed by team physician Dr. Stephen Lombardo last Thursday.

7.   But after the knee puffed up, Odomes had exploratory arthroscopic surgery, which revealed the ligament damage.

8.   But during exploratory surgery the next day they found a ruptured spleen, which damaged his kidneys and killed muscles in his legs.

9.   Called MRI neurography, it is expected to offer more precise diagnosis and treatment of nerve damage and to allow some patients to avoid exploratory surgeries.