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Aug 12, 2017 · George Gershwin (born Sept 26, 1898) was one of the greatest American composers in history. He died, aged 38 years on July 11, 1937, after surgery for his brain tumour. His olfactory hallucinations, a sign of temporal lobe epilepsy, had begun in early 1934,1–3 but he continued active musical works despite the gradual deterioration of his health status until several months before his ...
- Can Post-Mortem CT and Angiography Provide All The Answers
How precise that cause of death needs to be depends on the...
- Can Post-Mortem CT and Angiography Provide All The Answers
The cause of his untimely death was most likely glioblastoma, the same type of brain cancer that killed Senators Edward M. Kennedy in 2009 and John McCain this September. ... 2018 3:20 PM EDT ...
July 19, 1937 12:00 AM GMT-4. W hen Composer George Gershwin crumpled in Hollywood last fortnight, doctors called it overwork. Last week, when he collapsed again they found a cystic tumor growing ...
Aug 12, 2017 · George Gershwin's death and Duret haemorrhage. George Gershwin's death and Duret haemorrhage. Lancet. 2017 Aug 12;390 (10095):646. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736 (17)31623-9.
- Takahiro Mezaki
- 2017
Jan 1, 2016 · In particular, olfactory auras are a rare finding, accounting for 0.9% of all auras (according to different series, the real incidence ranges from 1.6% to 16%) (43); their cause and anatomical basis are disputed because of the relatively small number of studies, but it is a common belief that they are almost always directly related to a brain tumor, as in Gershwin's case 1, 43, 44.
- Davide Bagatti
- 2016
The Diagnosis of Stupor and Coma (3rd edn). Philadelphia: FA Davis Company, 1980: 103–5. 2. Carp L. George Gershwin — illustrious American composer: his fatal glioblastoma. Am J Surg Pathol 1979; 3: 473–7. 3. Fabricant ND.
Jan 1, 2016 · George Gershwin was awarded the Pulitzer Prize posthumously, several decades after his death. It is generally believed that things began to change during the last year of life of the American composer, after the onset of neurological symptoms due to the presence of a glioblastoma multiforme, a deadly kind of brain tumor that led him to death within a few months.
