11.   Doctors are optimistic that Darryl Strawberry, the Yankee outfielder, will recover from the disease after surgeons removed a cancerous tumor from his colon earlier this month.

12.   Doctors diagnosed her problem as an infected gall bladder, which surgeons removed.

13.   During transplants, Serur said, surgeons do not remove defective organs.

14.   During the nearly three-hour procedure, surgeons removed bone spurs, or abnormal growths, from vertebrae in his neck.

15.   Ehrhard learned that surgeons could remove her medium-sized tumor one of three ways.

16.   First, the surgeon arthroscopically removed his damaged anterior and posterior cruciate ligaments.

17.   Here surgeons remove organs for transplant once the patient has been declared dead.

18.   Hollywood legend Elizabeth Taylor was resting comfortably at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after surgeons successfully removed an apparently benign brain tumor.

19.   If surgeons remove the primary tumor, in some cases the metastases grow more aggressively.

20.   In a pallidotomy, surgeons remove cells that are firing abnormally in a small brain region that governs movement.