As a result he has undergone several reconstructive operations in those years.

Now he lay waiting for a reconstructive operation, with several pins in his side.

The linebacker went through a similar reconstructive operation, on his left knee, in 1984.

Over the next three years he underwent two further reconstructive operations and was off work for a year recovering.

Born with a deformed face, without even a nose, he has had 30 reconstructive operations.

Despite seven reconstructive operations, she still doesn't look like her sister or her classmates.

Now, five reconstructive operations later, the lower half of Goldberg's face is solid scar tissue.

But in 1999, two reconstructive operations on her left knee hurt Lobo's quickness.

When a reconstructive operation fails, Julie flies to Mexico and gets a divorce behind Doug's back.

When his mother, Hermenegilda Hernandez, learned of Sam's perilous condition, and of the necessary reconstructive operations, she thought she was prepared.

Computer models in three dimensions now allow surgeons to plan and even simulate complicated reconstructive operations of the head, leading to shorter, safer surgery and dramatically improved results.

He removed magnetic and amagmetic interocular objects, performed optic reconstructive operations, worked on eye muscles, orbits, and cosmetic repairs after enucleation of the eye.

Stricken with Ewing's sarcoma at the age of 9, Grealy endured years of radiation and chemotherapy followed by a series of reconstructive operations, most of them unsuccessful.

Jacqueline was severely injured in a crash in which she was a passenger in 1949-many of the bones in her face were broken-and spent nearly three years in hospitals undergoing 33 reconstructive operations.

Dr. Andrew Kleinman, a plastic surgeon in New Rochelle, N.Y., said he recently had a breast cancer patient whose insurance company refused to pay for an initial reconstructive operation that was performed immediately after her mastectomy.

These models would be particularly useful for reconstructive operations because they would allow doctors to envision not only how tissues will be sewn together but also how a part of the body like an arm or a hand will move.

Lecker said that Avery was willing to settle because of the need to defray some of the costs of the reconstructive operations he must still undergo, in addition to skepticism that the 15-month-long investigation would ever reach a satisfactory conclusion.

Each team is made up of 3-4 surgeons (plastic, maxillo-facial and craniofacial), 2-3 anaesthetists and nurses who spend 2 weeks carrying out a variety of complex and lengthy facial reconstructive operations, including free flaps (microsurgery) and pedicles, in Addis Ababa.

After more than 12 hours of surgery yesterday, doctors at the Children's Hospital at Montefiore Medical Center successfully separated the conjoined twins Carl and Clarence Aguirre, and began reconstructive operations that were expected to last into the early hours today, hospital officials said.