1.   A patient who signs a consent form for a surgical operation can not later sue the surgeon for battery.

2.   Sometimes it is a surgical operation, sometimes not.

3.   This month scientific advisers will consider whether extra controls are needed to protect food and prevent accidental transmission through surgical operations.

4.   You are advised to consult other texts for full details of these and other surgical operations.

5.   Hospitals lack even basic drugs for surgical operations.

6.   A patient who signs a consent form for a surgical operation cannot later sue the surgeon for battery.

7.   Agnelli died after an eight-month fight against abdominal cancer that included treated in New York, including a surgical operation, bone marrow transplants and chemotherapy.

8.   After surviving elections and surgical operations over the last nine months, Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin got together again this week and accomplished more than they expected.

9.   Louima, who was hospitalized with severe internal injuries, underwent his third surgical operation two weeks ago, to remove a colostomy bag.

10.   The result, some medical experts estimate, is that half of all surgical operations and other medical procedures remain without strict scientific evidence of their efficacy and safety.