George Gershwin -- a case of new ways in neurosurgery as well as in the history of Western music.

Gasenzer, Elena; Neugebauer, Edmund A M · Acta Neurochir (Wien) · 2014

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Abstract

George Gershwin, the famous American composer, died in 1937 of a temporal lobe glioma. An emergency surgery was performed by R. Nafziger and W. E. Dandy. The case of George Gershwin indicates the beginning of a new era in music history as well as in the history of neurosurgery.

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