A six-hour operation can go by in what seems like a half hour.

Within hours, he was transferred to Walter Reed Army Hospital, where he underwent a six-hour operation.

He was flown from Alice Springs to Royal Adelaide Hospital where he underwent a six-hour operation to stabilise and strengthen his badly injured spine.

On March 7, Umbricht underwent a six-hour operation using perfusion to remove the tumor from his right leg.

Grateful because my mother survived a six-hour operation, a cat's cradle of cardiac repair with replacement pipes borrowed from both leg and breast.

It flew into a nearby bag of fertilizer, but his parents found it later that day and it was reattached to Verbeek's hand after a six-hour operation.

Doctors called the six-hour operation successful and said they doubted that Mr. Glendening, 59, would need follow-up chemotherapy.

She was paralyzed waist-down after a six-hour operation.

Dr. Fried told the Taylors that the chances of success were very good, but they also knew that the six-hour operation entailed major risks.

A year ago, Dr. Brady performed a six-hour operation that she recalled in her breezy surgeon's way as "fun."