1.   No patient had a coexisting medical complaint likely to affect bile acid metabolism nor had any undergone previous bowel surgery other than appendicectomy.

2.   Four-year-old, Laura Davies, is undergoing life-saving liver and bowel surgery in the United States.

3.   Dragovic said that Ms. Lansing had had extensive bowel surgery but that he saw no signs of active cancer.

4.   Pezim said he has recovered from bowel surgery, during which he almost died from complications brought on by congenital heart and lung ailments.

5.   The laparoscopic technique has not been widely adopted, according to doctors who perform bowel surgery.

6.   The tiniest of the quints, she had bowel surgery when she was a week old.

7.   Benedettini said they were part of periodic examinations following bowel surgery four years ago.

8.   Eighteen years into his pontificate, bowel surgery, a hip replacement and broken arm have slowed the pope.

9.   Finally, a diabetic Atlanta boy needed bowel surgery twice for a severe bacterial infection after eating a holiday chitterlings feast.