He needed the lung operation to free himself of Pinky.
The lung operation had first frightened Buddy, and then had made him fearless.
That is what happened with the lung operation, medical experts said.
The King failed to recover from a lung operation, and died in his sleep on 6 February 1952 at Sandringham; he was aged 56.
After a lung operation in 1968, his doctor advised him to give up performing.
But a second trial of the lung operation is unlikely, many medical experts said.
The answer came back the morning of the lung operation: tuberculosis in the liver.
As a result of imprisonment, Do struggled with terbuculosis before having a lung operation.
When hospitals develop such teams, Dr. Cooper said, he expects thousands of patients to undergo the lung operation each year.
Shortly after, Abbott underwent a lung operation.