Sentence examples for prior operations from inspiring English sources

Five years after a prostatectomy, about 18percentt of men under the care of an inexperienced surgeon, those with no more than 10 prior operations, were more likely to see signs that cancer had returned, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center researchers in New York said.

Prior surgery at the involved spinal segments may be measured as yes-no or as the number of prior operations.

Today in Afghanistan, malaria affects only about 1 U.S. service member per 1,000 per year 10; this rate is extremely low by historical standards, particularly as compared with rates during prior operations in areas of comparable endemicity, including Somalia, 12 where they were nearly ten times higher.

The majority of paediatric cardiologists recommend epicardial pacing in children less than 10 kg and when venous access to the heart is limited by congenital anomalies or prior operation; for older children, transvenous implantation has become the technique of choice.

A total of 12 patients (32%) had a prior operation and a histological diagnosis of either AII (six cases) or AA (six cases).

Cases were more likely than controls to be diabetic, immunocompromised, to have had a prior operation on the index joint, and to have had a prior arthroplasty on the index joint.

Patients were excluded from analysis if they were: (1) aged <20 years, (2) had postoperative surgical site infection due to prior operation, and (3) mortality after surgery in hospital.

Twenty-two patients (mean age, 26.5 years; 4.9 prior sinus operations) underwent MEMM and sinus surgery.

The standard Chinese version of QLQ-C30 (version 3.0) was administered following diagnosis but prior to operation or re-operation for all eligible patients.

SWS also spent $2 million to settle legal claims related to the company's prior trust operations.

He had no prior abdominal operations.