Title |
The uncinated crisis of George Gershwin
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Published in |
Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, July 2002
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DOI | 10.1590/s0004-282x2002000300033 |
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Authors |
Hélio A.G. Teive, Francisco M.B. Germiniani, Alexander B. Cardoso, Luciano de Paola, Lineu César Werneck |
Abstract |
George Gershwin, renowned composer and pianist, well known for his popular works, died on the 11th July 1937 due to a brain tumor. His neurological symptoms first appeared on that same year, in February, with a simple olfactory partial seizure, characterized by an unpleasant smell of burnt rubber (uncinated seizure). He later had a quick clinical descend, with severe headache that occurred in bouts, dizziness, coordination compromise and olfactory seizures, eventually lapsing into a coma on the 9th July 1937. It was then that a gliomatosus cyst was diagnosed, which on microscopic examination proved to be a "glioblastoma multiforme". Despite the surgical intervention, Gershwin died soon after the procedure without recovering his consciousness. We make a brief review of Gershwin's neurologic disease, with emphasis on the initial symptoms, namely the uncinated seizures. |
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