31.   Patients who had had gastrointestinal surgery, apart from uncomplicated appendicectomy, were excluded.

32.   The cause for this is not clear but one factor could be the higher proportion of miners who had had gastric surgery.

33.   None of the patients had had abdominal surgery previously.

34.   Twelve patients had revisional surgery and it seems likely that the results of tests helped with the treatment decisions for these patients.

35.   The patient was reluctant to have further surgery but eventually agreed.

36.   Those patients who did not respond to dilatation treatment were advised to have surgery.

37.   A man who had a vital operation cancelled three times has finally had his surgery...

38.   Lloyd Walker arrives today as skipper Michael Lynagh flies home to have surgery on his dislocated shoulder.

39.   Davies, who has been told he must have an operation on his troublesome groin, must decide when he is to have the surgery.

40.   And the same week that he was killed, Sasha, her daughter was in Great Ormond Street having surgery for cancer of the brain.