The phrase "a subsequent surgery" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a surgery that occurs after a previous surgery or event.
Example: "The patient will need a subsequent surgery to address complications from the first operation."
Alternatives: "a follow-up surgery" or "an additional surgery".
After an accident and a subsequent surgery, in the nineteen-seventies, Liebert went to Paris, intending to dance.
The meniscal lesions in ARIF group were treated at the same time as the fracture, while the same lesions in ORIF group were treated at a subsequent surgery.
For the complications of wound healing and infection, thought to represent a higher risk for repeat resection after recurrence, the data were separately reported for the population having carmustine implantation at initial surgery and for those having it during a subsequent surgery for recurrence, and are presented in Table 2.
Jagr, a Penguins wing, has been out since Feb. 22 with a hamstring injury in his right leg and a blood clot and subsequent surgery in his left leg.
Demsey listened with growing interest as the man described his receiving a diagnosis of a malignant brain tumor a few years ago, his subsequent surgery and continuing recovery.
Last year a knee injury and subsequent surgery limited him to 36 games.
A knee injury, and subsequent surgery, ended Lin's magical run in late March.
That began a long, slow descent for Ms. Topete, which included her husband's infidelity, postpartum depression after having her son, divorce, a heart attack and subsequent surgery, and steady weight gain.
Patient C underwent embolisation of a renal mass without subsequent surgery.
At subsequent surgery, a RIGIDFIX cross-pin fixator (Mitek, Westwood, MA, USA) was retrieved, intact, from the sterile fluctuant mass around the superomedial aspect of the knee.
Some authors have argued that embolization does not cure a diseased pancreas and subsequent surgery is always indicated [ 5- 7].
