The surgery had left her unable to speak, so we wrote notes.

Then I remembered the hospital stay, and the surgery to repair her face after she'd left us.

This is because open surgery leaves the patient more prone to infection.

She decided to abort but the surgery left her infertile.

"The surgery has left me with blurred vision," he said.

The surgery left a long scar, but made her feel whole again.

When he was 5, Michael developed a brain tumor, and the surgery to remove the growth left him blind.

The surgery left a faint, 4-inch scar visible only to me along my smile line.

The surgery, she said, has left her with a variety of permanent ailments.

However experimental surgery on his legs when he was ten left him in a wheelchair.