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Review Historical Article
The Unforgettable Neurosurgical Operations of Musicians in Last Century.
- Elena Romana Gasenzer, Ayhan Kanat, and Edmund Neugebauer.
- Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health, Institut für Forschung in der Operativen Medizin, Campus Köln-Merheim, Universität Witten/Herdecke, Köln, Germany. Electronic address: elena.gasenzer@uni-wh.de.
- World Neurosurg. 2017 May 1; 101: 444-450.
BackgroundThere has been no study of craniotomies of famous musicians throughout history. This subject was investigated.MethodsThe key search words were "neurosurgery and music" and the names of composers. We used digital catalogs such as PubMed as well as university libraries.ResultsWe found 4 musicians from the twentieth century with different neurosurgical diseases: Maurice Ravel, George Gershwin, Clara Haskil, and Pat Martino.ConclusionsNeurosurgical operations affected the musical careers and lives of mentioned musicians and two of them died. Neurosurgeons can understand the effect of limited diagnostic tools such as magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography at the time on the poor outcome of 2 musicians.Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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