The Unforgettable Neurosurgical Operations of Musicians in Last Century.

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The Unforgettable Neurosurgical Operations of Musicians in Last Century.

World Neurosurg. 2016 Dec 05;:

Authors: Gasenzer ER, Kanat A, Neugebauer E

Abstract
BACKGROUND: there is no study for interesting craniotomies of famous musician in history. This subject was investigated.
MATERIAL ANDMETHODS: The key words were "neurosurgery and music" and the names of composers. We used digital catalogues like "pubmed" as well as the libraries of universities.
RESULTS: We found four musicians with different neurosurgical diseases who are Maurice Ravel, George Gershwin, Clara Haskil, Pat Martino.from the 20(th) century eras.
CONCLUSION: ; Neurosurgical disease was leaded poor to the end of a musical career and their lives in two of four musicians. Neurosurgeons today can understand the effect of limited diagnostic tools such as MRI and CT at the timeon the poor outcome of two musician.

PMID: 27931941 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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