51.   A team of top heart doctors has volunteered to perform a heart operation on a puppy in order to practice surgical techniques used on children.

52.   Advanced surgical techniques like laparoscopy would be introduced for further development and there would be technical workshops for younger surgeons.

53.   Dr Suthiporn Jitmitrapharp, Chulalongkorn University Medical Faculty assistant rector, said that the procedure was the removal of a left kidney using the laparoscopy surgical technique.

54.   New surgical techniques could save the lymph nodes and avoid radiotherapy after breast cancer surgery, a leading expert said Monday.

55.   Odim told the inquiry he made mistakes, but rejected suggestions his surgical technique was to blame for the deaths.

56.   Serm claimed he had taken her corpse to a cheap motel and used surgical techniques he had learned to dissect her body.

57.   Then he gave participating twins facelifts using slightly different surgical techniques, to help settle a debate over which facelifts hold up best over time.