1.   An unnecessary operation left him severely disabled.

2.   The operation left their son blind and brain-damaged.

3.   The surgeon was forced to admit that this operation would leave Dawn paralysed and wheelchair-bound for the rest of her life.

4.   There was a grave risk that the operation would leave him partly paralysed.

5.   Summing up has begun at the High Court in the case of a woman who claims that a routine jaw operation left her paralysed for life.

6.   Although the operation leaves many men impotent and incontinent, surgeons argue that removing the cancerous gland saves lives.

7.   A botched sex-change operation leaves the patient, now named Hedwig, with a knot of scar tissue, an angry inch.

8.   But the operation has left McMurtry in a quandary about self.

9.   He hopes the bypass operation leaves him in better condition than before.

10.   The emergency operation left him with a temporary colostomy, or an opening of the colon through the skin.