1.   Before removing a diseased liver, she said, the surrounding lymph nodes should be biopsied.

2.   But pathology tests of the diseased liver that was removed in the transplant showed that the cancer had already spread to his bile ducts.

3.   However, he said his team could learn about spread in the affected area only after the diseased liver had been removed.

4.   Then surgery in an adjacent operating room began to remove the diseased liver of the recipient.

5.   Total removal of the diseased liver and transplantation of a healthy liver was the only option.

6.   Larry Hagman was released from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Saturday, a week and a half after surgeons replaced his diseased liver.