1.   He spent several weeks in hospital, and needed three operations to repair his damaged liver.

2.   Injuries quickly returned, including a broken left leg and mangled right knee that required six operations to repair.

3.   It took four operations to repair the damage, including one to implant a pair of steel stabilizing hooks in his spine.

4.   But Yin Chian still needs a second corrective operation to repair the narrowing of the arteries to the lungs, valve obstruction and overriding of blood vessels.

5.   He needed two operations to repair the damage and his Oxford-based lawyers say he must have one more to remove a damaged nerve.

6.   He walks with a stiff gait, and a spokesman said the knee operation repaired damage incurred during his prison years.

7.   He walks stiffly, and a spokesman said the knee operation repaired damage incurred during his prison years.

8.   The Cuban Sports Institute said Sotomayor would need an operation to repair the injured disc in his lower back.

9.   The operation repaired a split and frayed tendon and the sheath that surrounds it.