SCIENTIFIC
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Tuesday 20 March 2012
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ADVANCED PROGRAMME
Wednesday 21 March 2012
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THURSday 22 March 2012
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FRIday 23 March 2012
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SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME
TUESDAY, 20 MARCH 2012
ROOM ONICE
SPONSORED INSTRUCTIONAL COURSE
8.30-11.00 Course A: Innovative tools and approaches for everyday neurosurgery
(Sponsored by Medtronic)
Chairman: Lucia Benvenuti (Italy)
8.30-8.35 Introduction
Lucia Benvenuti (Italy)
8.35-8.55 Neurosurgical planning with StealthViz DTI and Synergy Cranial 2.2 Stefan Wolfsberger (Austria)
8.55-9.15 Application and clinical value of intraoperative neurophysiology
in neurosurgery
Klaus Novak (Austria)
9.15-9.35 Electro-magnetic frameless navigation in brain neurosurgery Corrado Iaccarino (Italy)
9.35-9.55 Current status of intra-operative MRI
Christian Senft (Germany)
9.55-10.00 Conclusion
Lucia Benvenuti (Italy)
10.00-11.00 Hands on with the Medtronic equipment
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TUESDAY, 20 MARCH 2012
ROOM ONICE
SPONSORED INSTRUCTIONAL COURSE
11.30-13.30 Course B: Mininvasive lumbar posterior motion preservation
(Sponsored by Cousin-Biotech)
Chairman: Armando Basso (Argentina)
11.30-11.40 Welcome and Opening
Armando Basso (Argentina)
11.40-11.50 Company presentation
Wim Van Der Wee (France)
11.50-12.10 IntraSPINE history, features, indications
Giancarlo Guizzardi (Italy)
12.10-12.30 My experience with posterior motion preservation devices
Gualtiero Innocenzi (Italy)
12.30-12.45 Economics aspects and costs of lumbar DDD surgery
Giuseppe Lippi (Italy)
12.45-13.15 Hands on sawbones course
13.15-13.30 Questions and Answers
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TUESDAY, 20 MARCH 2012
ROOM ONICE
SPONSORED INSTRUCTIONAL COURSE
14.30-16.30 Course C: Neuroendoscopy (Basic Course)
(instruments supplied by Karl Storz)
Chairman: Paoli Ferroli (Italy)
Basics of neuroendoscopy
Morgan Broggi (Italy)
Surgical anatomy of the ventricular system
Francesco Acerbi (Italy)
Main indications to cerebral neuroendoscopy and results
Concetta Alafaci (Italy)
Surgical technique of main cerebral endoscopic procedures Matteo de Notaris (Spain)
Complication avoidance in cerebral neuroendoscopy
Paolo Ferroli (Italy)
Spinal endoscopy
Lorenzo Paoli (Italy)
Teaching session 40 minutes
Practical session Hands on Workshop 80 minutes
10 stations with one tutor for each station and two neurosurgeons
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TUESDAY, 20 MARCH 2012
ROOM ONICE
SPONSORED INSTRUCTIONAL COURSE
17.00-19.00 Course D: Neuroendoscopy (Basic Course)
(instruments supplied by Karl Storz)
Chairman: Paolo Ferroli (Italy)
Basics of neuroendoscopy
Morgan Broggi (Italy)
Teaching session 40 minutes
Practical session Hands on Workshop 80 minutes
10 stations with one tutor for each station and two neurosurgeons
Surgical anatomy of the ventricular system
Francesco Acerbi (Italy)
Main indications to cerebral neuroendoscopy and results
Concetta Alafaci (Italy)
Surgical technique of main cerebral endoscopic procedures Matteo de Notaris (Spain)
Complication avoidance in cerebral neuroendoscopy
Paolo Ferroli (Italy)
Spinal endoscopy
Lorenzo Paoli (Italy)
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TUESDAY, 20 MARCH 2012
ROOM 4
PRE-CONGRESS INSTRUCTIONAL COURSE
9.30-12.30 ISMINS Instructional Course for Young Neurosurgeons
Chairmen: Enrique Ferrer (Spain), Engelbert Knosp (Austria)
9.30-10.15 Endoscopy of the sellar and parasellar space
Engelbert Knosp (Austria)
10.15-11.00 Minimal invasiveness in the treatment of cerebral aneurysms: from coil to keyhole surgery
Andreas Gruber (Austria)
11.00-11.45 Navigation of cerebral lesions
Stefan Wolfsberger (Austria)
11.45-12.30 Endoscopic endonasal pituitary and / or skull base surgery
Matteo de Notaris (Spain)
PRE-CONGRESS INSTRUCTIONAL COURSE
14.00-17.00 ISMINS Instructional Course for Young Neurosurgeons
Chairmen: Enrique Ferrer (Spain), Engelbert Knosp (Austria)
14.00-14.45 Contemporary surgical management of prolapsed lumbar disc
Enrique Ferrer (Spain)
14.45-15.30 Neuronavigation guidance in lumbar surgery
Ramon Florensa (Spain)
15.30-16.15 Anterior versus posterior surgical approach in cervical spinal
disc disease
Enrique Urculo (Spain)
16.15-17.00 Fundamentals in contemporary stereotactic surgery
Jordi Rumià (Spain)
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WEDNESDAY, 21 MARCH 2012
AUDITORIUM
9.00-10.30
9.00-9.10 Plenary Symposium
CLIP OR COIL: WHICH IS MORE BENEFICIAL FOR CEREBRAL ANEURYSM
Chairmen: Giampaolo Cantore (Italy), Feng Ling (China)
Coiling
Endovascular neurosurgery as a first line therapy for the
treatment of cerebral aneurysms
Yuichi Murayama (Japan)
9.10-9.20 Endovascular treatment of PICA involving VA dissecting aneurysm
Yong-Sam Shin (Korea)
9.20-9.30 9.30-9.40 Intracranial endovascular reconstruction by endovascular neurosurgery
Pedro Lylik (Argentina)
Clipping
Clipping after coiling and coiling after clipping
Atos Alves De Sousa (Brazil)
9.40-9.50 Surgical strategies for aneurysms when coiling carries higher risk
Joshua Bederson (USA)
9.50-10.00 Keyhole clipping surgery
Kentaro Mori (Japan)
10.00-10.10 minimal invasive surgery for unruptured MCA aneurysms
(how I do it)
Vladimir Benes (Czech Republic)
10.10-10.20 Original artery reconstruction
Hirotoshi Sano (Japan)
10.20-10.30 Questions & Answers
10.30-10.50 Break
ROOM VERDE
9.00-13.30 Video Session
Please see page 49 for the list of videos to be shown
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WEDNESDAY, 21 MARCH 2012
AUDITORIUM
10.50-12.40
10.50-11.10
Plenary Symposium
MINIMALLY INVASIVE APPROACHES TO THE DEGENERATIVE SPINE PATHOLOGY
Chairmen: Marcos Masini (Brazil), Fernando Ugarriza (Spain) The concept of “minimally invasive” surgery of the spine
degenerative disease
Michael Mayer (Germany)
11.10-11.25 Endoscopic approaches to the cervical spine: indications and results with 2 years of follow-up
Jean Destandau (France)
11.25-11.40 Endoscopic approaches to the thoracic spine: indications and late follow-up
Daniel Rosenthal (Germany)
11.40-11.55 Endoscopic approach for extremolateral and migrated hernias in lumbar spine
Enrique Osorio (Columbia)
11.55-12.15 Microsurgical vs. endoscopic approaches in the lumbar
degenerative spine Michael Mayer (Germany) vs Larry Teik-Man Khoo (USA)
12.15-12.30 Minimally invasive anterior approach to cervical OPLL using
interbody cage fixation
Hiroshi Nakagawa (Japan)
12.30-12.40 Questions & answers
12.40-13.30 Lunch break
13.30-14.10 Invited Lectures
13.30-13.50 The birth of minimal invasive procedures for pituitary adenoma
Armando Basso (Argentina)
13.50-14.10 What does minimally invasive neurosurgery mean?
Peter Black (USA)
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WEDNESDAY, 21 MARCH 2012
AUDITORIUM
14.10-15.45
14.10-14.25
PARALLEL SESSIONS
Symposium
SURGICAL ANATOMY
Chairmen: Yoko Kato (Japan), Pierre Rabischong (France)
Endoscope-assisted microneurosurgery: a new surgical point of view
Renato Galzio (Italy)
14.25-14.40 Muscles preservation in spine microsurgery
Pierre Rabischong (France)
14.40-14.55 Surgical anatomy for MIN: concept, approaches and clinical planning
Klaus Dieter Maria Resch (Germany)
14.55-15.10 Anatomy of the mesial temporal lobe
Álvaro Campero (Argentina)
15.10-15.25 Anatomy of the orbit
Álvaro Campero (Argentina)
15.25-15.40 The use of a three-dimensional novel computer-based model for training and analysis of the endonasal endoscopic approach to the
midline skull base. Anatomic considerations
Matteo de Notaris (Spain)
15.40-15.45 Questions & answers
14.10-14.30 ROOM VERDE
Symposium
PEDIATRIC CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA
Chairmen: Armando Cama (Italy), Concezio Di Rocco (Italy)
Microsurgical approach for craniopharyngioma
Graciela Zuccaro (Argentina)
14.30-14.50 Keyhole approaches for pediatric craniopharyngioma
Charles Teo (Australia)
14.50-15.10 Controversies in the management of craniopharyngioma
Maurice Choux (France)
15.10-15.30 Intracystic bleomycin treatment
Nelci Zanon (Brazil)
15.30-15.45 Questions & answers
15.45-16.00 Break
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WEDNESDAY, 21 MARCH 2012
AUDITORIUM
16.00-18.30 Oral Presentations 1
Chairmen: Christian Brogna (Italy), Carlo Marras (Italy)
16.00-16.08
Mini-invasive scalp approach for the correction of sagittal
craniosynostosis
Luca Massimi, Massimo Caldarelli, Giovanna Paternoster,
Gianpiero Tamburrini, Concezio Di Rocco (Italy)
16.08-16.16 Application of bilateral endoscopic intraventricular lavage in
improving survival of infants with pyogenic ventriculitis
Azmi Alias (Malaysia)
16.16-16.24
Limited posterior fossa craniectomy in the surgical treatment
of Chiari malformation Type I
Giovanna Paternoster, Massimo Caldarelli, Gianluca Trevisi,
Corrado Lucantoni, Luca Massimi, Gianpiero Tamburrini,
Concezio Di Rocco (Italy)
16.24-16.32
Does age at treatment influence the surgical outcome after Sylvian fissure arachnoids cysts marsupialisation?
Gianluca Trevisi, Massimo Caldarelli, Gianpiero Tamburrini,
Luca Massimi, Giovanna Paternoster, Corrado Lucantoni,
Concezio Di Rocco (Italy)
16.32-16.40
Use and indications of the Robotized Stereotactic Assistant System in pediatric neurosurgery
Carlo Efisio Marras, Emidio Procaccini, Paolo Palma,
Amedeo Calisto, Michele Rizzi, Antonella Medda,
Elisabetta Genovese, Rita Amante, Olivier Delalande (Italy)
16.40-16.48
Treatment of intraventricular arachnoidal cysts: endoscopy versus shunts
Laura Valentini, Marika Furlanetto, Vittoria Nazzi,
Veronica Saletti, Carlo Lazzaro Solero (Italy)
16.48-16.56 Neuroendoscopic surgery for extensively invasive skull base tumors, The University of Tokyo experience
Masahiro Shin, Kenji Kondo, Shunya Hanakita, Nobuhito Saito (Japan)
16.56-17.04
Leucocyte-platelet haemocomponents for topical use: regenerative potentiality
Alberto Alexandre, Gaetano Caloprisco, Alessio Borean,
Andrea Maria Alexandre (Italy)
17.04-17.12 Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion using just a TCP-filled PEEK cage with teeth on the endplates without an anterior cervical plate
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WEDNESDAY, 21 MARCH 2012
AUDITORIUM
16.00-18.30 Oral Presentations 1 (cont.)
17.12-17.20 Analgesic efficacy of diclofenac sodium in reducing the total dose of morphine and its adverse effect after lumbar disc surgery
Mohamad Shimia, Yazdan Dokht Ghafari M. (Iran)
17.20-17.28 Transpedicular elastic stabilization in lumbar DDD: indications and clinical results
Riccardo Morichi, Lorenzo Paoli, Alessandro Vagaggini (Italy)
17.28-17.36
Minimally invasive “functional” decompression of anterior cranio
vertebral junction “irreducible” pathologies by posterior
instrumentation
Massimiliano Visocchi, Giuseppe Maria Della Pepa (Italy)
17.36-17.44
Minimally invasive endoscope-assisted microsurgical transoral approach to the anterior craniovertebral junction compressive
pathologies
Massimiliano Visocchi, Giuseppe Maria Della Pepa (Italy)
17.44-17.52
The posterior min approach to cervical disk disease:
micro-lamino-foraminotomy
Miguel A. Arraez, Lorena Romero, Laura González García,
Juan Manuel Medina-Imbroda, Álvaro Martín-Gallego,
Miguel Domínguez Páez, Cristina Sánchez-Viguera,
Cinta Arraez (Spain)
17.52-18.00 Surgical management of cervical spondylotic myelopathy
Artem Gushcha (Russia)
18.00-18.30 Discussion
ROOM VERDE
16.00-18.30 Oral Presentations 2
Chairmen: Concetta Alafaci (Italy), Franco Ammannati (Italy)
16.00-16.08
Surgical saivage for symptomatic degenerate AVMS after
radiosurgery: an update
Hiroki Kurita, Hidetoshi Ooigawa, Takeshi Ogura, Ririko Takeda, Goji Fushihara, Shin-ichiro Yoshikawa, Daisuke Okada (Japan)
16.08-16.16
Twenty-years experience of craniopharyngioma surgery in 111 cases: the evolution towards minimally invasive surgery
Paolo Ferroli, Morgan Broggi, Francesco Acerbi, Melina Castiglione,
Marco Schiariti, Giovanni Tringali, Giovanni Broggi (Italy)
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WEDNESDAY, 21 MARCH 2012
ROOM VERDE
16.00-18.30
16.16-16.24 Oral Presentations 2 (cont.)
Surgical treatment of diaphragma sellae, tuberculum and clivus meningiomas: extended transsphenoidal approach in selected cases
Mario Francesco Fraioli (Italy)
16.24-16.32 Minimally invasive surgeries for central skull base meningiomas
Zhou Fei, Xiang Zhang, Xiaofan Jiang, Luoan Fu,
Jianning Zhang, Weiping Liu, Qingdong Guo (China)
16.32-16.40 Experience of intravascular treatment for intracranial aneurysms
Qing Zhu (China)
16.40-16.48 Preliminary study of neurophysiology monitoring for intravascular treatment of intracranial aneurysms
Qing Zhu (China)
16.48-16.56 Cerebral aneurysm critical size and risk of bleeding. Back to the truth
Bassem Sheikh (Saudi Arabia)
16.56-17.04 Coiling / cliping as synergistic modalities and not antagonistic ones: lessons gleaned from a vascular-cum-endovascular experience
Sujoy K. Sanyal (India)
17.04-17.12 Preoperative simulation using three-dimensional imaging for
clipping of middle cerebral artery aneurysm via pterional keyhole
Hiroharu Suzuki, Kentaro Mori (Japan)
17.12-17.20 Pterion keyhole approach for anterior circulation aneurysms
Hiroshi Tokimura (Japan)
17.20-17.28 Usefulness and limitations of the ICG video-angiography in
cerebrovascular surgery
Miguel A. Arraez, Lorena Romero, Laura González García,
Juan Manuel Medina-Imbroda, Álvaro Martín-Gallego,
Miguel Domínguez Páez, Cristina Sánchez-Viguera, Cinta Arraez (Spain)
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WEDNESDAY, 21 MARCH 2012
ROOM VERDE
16.00-18.30 Oral Presentations 2 (cont.)
17.28-17.36
Predictors of clinical outcome in patients with ruptured internal cerebral artery aneurysm: a single comprehensive stroke center experience
Takeshi Ogura, Shoichiro Ishihara, Hidetoshi Ooigawa,
Fumitaka Yamane, Ririko Takeda, Ryuzaburo Kanazawa,
Goji Fushihara, Shinichiro Yoshikawa, Daisuke Okada,
Hiroki Kurita (Japan)
17.36-17.44 Staged carotid stenting for high risk patients
Shoichiro Ishihara (Japan)
17.44-17.52 Early microsurgical treatment of ruptured anterior communicating artery aneurysms
Guang-yang Ren, Yu-yu Wang, Gang Li (China)
17.52-18.00 Intrasellar aneurysms mimicking tumors: report of two cases and review of the literatures
Hong-wei Zhang, Chun-jiang Yu Ming-shang (China)
18.00-18.30 Discussion
19.00-20.00
Opening Ceremony and
Welcome Reception
at the Palazzo Vecchio - Salone dei Cinquecento
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THURSDAY, 22 MARCH 2012
AUDITORIUM
8.30-10.10
8.30-8.40 Plenary Symposium
FUNCTIONAL AND STEREOTACTIC NEUROSURGERY
Chairmen: Giovanni Broggi (Italy), Yves Keravel (France)
“Off label” targets for brain neuromodulation
Angelo Franzini (Italy)
8.40-8.50 Dystonia surgery
Joachim Krauss (Germany)
Epilepsy surgery
8.50-9.00 Aesthetic preservation in temporal lobectomy
Vincenzo Esposito (Italy)
9.00-9.10 Neuromodulation (VNS-DBS)
Carlo Marras (Italy)
9.10-9.20 Ablative surgery
Giorgio Lorusso (Italy)
Cranial nerves neuralgia
9.20-9.30 Trigeminal neuralgia
Fabio Calbucci (Italy)
9.30-9.40 Cranial nerve compression syndromes
Marc Sindou (France)
9.40-10.10
Questions & answers
10.10-10.30 Break
ROOM VERDE
9.00-12.15 Video Session
Please see page 49 for the list of videos to be shown
12.15-12.30 Invited Lecture
Technical advances in endoscopic transsphenoidal surgery:
the 3-D endoscope
Nelson M. Oyesiku (USA)
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THURSDAY, 22 MARCH 2012
AUDITORIUM
10.30-12.10
10.30-10.45
Plenary Symposium
NEUROENDOSCOPY
Chairmen: Engelbert Knosp (Austria),
Guillermo Fernández Molina (Argentina)
General concepts of neuroendoscopy
Luiz Carlos de Alencastro (Brazil)
10.45-11.00 The Marburg Concept of Minimally Invasive Endoscopic
Neurosurgery (MIEN) 1988-2008
Dieter Hellwig (Germany)
11.00-11.15 A shift in the algorithm in treatment of pituitary adenomas
Charles Teo (Australia)
11.15-11.30
11.30-11.45
Endoscopic treatment of cerebral cysts and tumors
J. André Grotenhuis (The Netherlands)
The extend approaches of skull-base tumors
Paolo Cappabianca (Italy)
11.45-12.00 The role of endoscopy in vascular surgery
Nikolai J. Hopf (Germany)
12.00-12.10 Questions & answers
12.30-13.20 Lunch break
13.20-14.00 Invited Lectures
13.20-13.40 Neuroimaging
Anton Valavanis (Switzerland)
13.40-14.00 Role of neuronavigated brain stimulation in planning minimally invasive neurosurgery
Francesco Tomasello (Italy)
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THURSDAY, 22 MARCH 2012
AUDITORIUM
14.00-15.45 PARALLEL SESSIONS
Symposium
RADIOSURGERY
Chairmen: Laura Fariselli (Italy), Massimo Gerosa (Italy)
14.00-14.20 Changing perspectives in radiosurgery
Massimo Gerosa (Italy)
14.20-14.40 Open problems in radiosurgery: from functional disease to acoustic NF2 neuromas
Jean Régis (France)
14.40-15.00 Role of stereotactic radiosurgery in treatment of high-grade
cerebral arteriovenous malformations
Shunya Hanakita (Japan) 15.00-15.40 Skull base meningiomas; from single shot to multisession radiosurgery
Julio Antico (Argentina), Leopoldo Casentini (Italy) 15.40-15.45 Questions & answers
ROOM VERDE
Symposium
RECENT NEUROIMAGING MODALITIES
Chairmen: Larry Teik-Man Khoo (USA), Fernando Ugarriza (Spain)
14.00-14.20 Stand up MRI
Jean-Pierre Elsig (Switzerland)
14.20-14.40 Intraoperative MRI
Rudolf Fahlbusch (Germany)
14.40-15.00 Multimodality visualization guided minimal invasive brain surgery
Rudolf Fahlbusch (Germany)
15.00-15.20 Multimodal planning and navigation in neurosurgery
Stefan Wolfsberger (Austria)
15.20-15.40 Fibertracking
Charles Raybaud (Canada)
15.40-15.45 Questions & answers
15.45-16.00 Break
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THURSDAY, 22 MARCH 2012
AUDITORIUM
16.00-18.30 16.00-16.08
Oral Presentations 3
Chairmen: Giuseppe Maida (Italy), Massimiliano Visocchi (Italy)
Brain mapping and outcome assessment using magnetic source and diffusion tensor imaging in awake craniotomy, endoscopic and microscopic tumoural brain surgery
Zamzuri Idris, Win Mar, Tahamina Begum, Faruque Reza,
Wan Mohd Nazaruddin Wan Hassan, Jafri M. Abdullah (Malaysia)
16.08-16.16
Minimally invasive approach to epidural hematomas: the role of preoperative 3d planning
Mauricio Mandel, Robson Amorim, Vinicius Trindade,
Almir Ferreira de Andrade, Manoel Jacobsen Teixeira (Brazil)
16.16-16.24 The caloscopy in treatment of adhesive spinal arcachnoiditis and spinal arachnoid cysts
Alexey Kascheev, Artem Goushcha, Sergey Arestov (Russia)
16.24-16.32 Multimodal IOM in minimally invasive neurosurgery in deep brain tumours nearby the cortico-spinal tracts
Roberto Cordella, Morgan Broggi, Francesco Acerbi,
Davide Vailati, Giovanni Tringali, Angelo Franzini,
Giovanni Broggi (Italy)
16.32-16.40 Anterior lumbosacral epiduroscopy: analysis of 60 operated cases
Guillermo Fernández Molina, Héctor Salgado, Pedro Salgado (Spain)
16.40-16.48 Epiduroscopy for FBSS treatment. Five years experience
Alberto Alexandre, Luca Corò, Andrea Maria Alexandre (Italy)
16.48-16.56 Minimally invasive thoracoscopic approach to the thoracolumbar spine
Andrea Barbanera, Matteo Vitali, Gianpaolo Longo,
Alessandro Bertuccio (Italy)
16.56-17.04 Results of full endoscopic lumbar discectomy
Hikmet Ulug, Soner Buyukkinaci, Tolga Gediz (Turkey)
17.04-17.12
Sacral Tarlov cysts surgical treatment by clipping
Simona Bistazzoni, Gualtiero Innocenzi, Vincenzo Esposito,
Serena Tola, Jacopo Lenzi, Emiliano Passacantilli,
Giampaolo Cantore (Italy)
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THURSDAY, 22 MARCH 2012
AUDITORIUM
16.00-18.30 Oral Presentations 3 (cont.)
17.12-17.20 Unstable burst fracture of upper-thoracic spine in the young:
is there a chance for minimally invasive neurosurgery?
Vincenzo Vitiello, Luca Arpino (Italy)
17.20-17.28
Percutaneous kyphoplasty in the treatment of osteoporotic
vertebral compression fractures (VCF). Analysis of 190 fractures in 148 patients
Guillermo Fernández Molina, Raul Feito,
Federico Fernández Molina (Argentina)
17.28-17.36 Percutaneous minimal invasive treatment with vertebral body
stenting in traumatic amyelic vertebral fracture
Lorenzo Paoli, Alessandro Vagaggini (Italy)
17.36-17.44 Thoracoscopic surgery for spine and neurogenic tumors
Artem Gushcha, Sergey Arestov (Russia)
17.44-17.52 Endoportal excision of spinal tumors using principles of minimally invasive spine surgery
Sanjay K. Rajan (India)
17.52-18.30 Discussion
ROOM VERDE
16.00-18.30 Oral Presentations 4
Chairmen: Miguel A. Arraez (Spain), Paolo Ferroli (Italy)
16.00-16.08
Advanced virtual magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques in neurovascular conflict: 3D-CISS and 3D-TOF image fusion and virtual cisternography
Concetta Alafaci, Francesca Granata, Maria Caffo,
Mariano Cutugno, Giuseppe La Fata, Maria Angela Pino,
Sergio Vinci, Marcello Longo, Carlo Gulì, Antonella Giugno,
Francesco Tomasello (Italy)
16.08-16.16
Two years follow-up after microsurgical discectomy and dynamic percutaneous stabilization in degenerate lumbar disc with discal herniation: single centre experience
Giuseppe Maida (Italy)
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THURSDAY, 22 MARCH 2012
ROOM VERDE
16.00-18.30 Oral Presentations 4 (cont.)
16.16-16.24 New neurostimulator for peripheral nerve stimulation
Alessandro Dario, Claudio Reverberi, Andrea Cividini,
Cesare Zoia (Italy)
16.24-16.32 Surgical decision in infraganglionic brachial plexus lesions: to use or not to use proximal stump, question is now?
Lukas Rasulic, Miroslav Samardzic (Serbia)
16.32-16.40 Transciliary supraorbital keyhole approach for meningiomas of anterior cranial fossa
Harjinder Bhatoe (India)
16.40-16.48 Ergonomics in minimally invasive neurosurgery (MIN)
Klaus Dieter Maria Resch (Germany)
16.48-16.56 Hemorrhagic complication in patients with chronic subdural
hematoma treated by twist drill craniostomy
Hiroshi Tokimura (Japan)
16.56-17.04
A follow-up study on the treatment of long-term survivors with malignant gliomas
Zhou Fei, Xiang Zhang, Xiaofan Jiang, Jianning Zhang,
Weiping Liu, Luoan Fu, Yangang Wang, Bing Li, Shaojun Song, Guang Cheng, Xiling Wang (China)
17.04-17.12 Endoscopic endonasal removal of midline skull base tumors:
management of intradural and lateral tumor compartments
Masaaki Taniguchi, Kohkichi Hosoda, Eiji Kohmura (Japan)
17.12-17.20
Surgical management of tuberculum sellae meningiomas
Riccardo Antonio Ricciuti, Giorgio Arnaldi, Luigi Fasanella,
Marco Boscaro, Cesare Carlucci, Michele Luzi, Roberto Trignani, Stefano Vecchioni, Luana Regnicolo, Natalie Herber,
Franco Rychlicki (Italy)
17.20-17.28 Microvascular decompression: which role for endoscopy?
Morgan Broggi, Paolo Ferroli, Giovanni Tringali,
Francesco Acerbi, Angelo Franzini, Giovanni Broggi (Italy)
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THURSDAY, 22 MARCH 2012
ROOM VERDE
16.00-18.30 Oral Presentations 4 (cont.)
17.28-17.36
Evaluation of the three-dimensional endoscope for anterior
skull-base surgery
Garni Barkhoudarian, Alicia Del Carmen Becerra Romero,
Sherry Iuliano, Edward Laws (USA, Brazil)
17.36-17.44
Microscopic and endoscopic 3D surgical anatomy of the
cerebello-pontine angle through the retromastoid approach
Davide Boeris, Giulio Anichini, Alexander Evins,
Alessandro Ducati, Francesco Zegna, Phillip Stieg,
Antonio Bernardo (USA, Italy)
17.44-18.30 Discussion
ROOM VERDE
18.30-19.00
ISMINS General Assembly
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FRIDAY, 23 MARCH 2012
AUDITORIUM
8.30-10.20
8.30-8.45
Plenary Symposium
PERI-OPERATIVE MANAGEMENT AND COMPLICATIONS IN MINIMALLY INVASIVE NEUROSURGERY
Chairmen: Lucia Benvenuti (Italy), Enrique Ferrer (Spain)
8.45-9.00
9.00-9.15
Prevention and treatment of infections
Cleopatra Charalampaki (Austria)
Peri-operative management
Isabelle M. Germano (USA)
Leaking prevention and treatment
Nicola Desogus (Italy)
9.15-9.30 Prevention and treatment in vascular complications
Enrique Urculo (Spain)
9.30-9.45 Prevention of complications in spinal procedures
Davide Locatelli (Italy)
9.45-10.00 Complications of keyhole approaches
Harjinder Singh Bhatoe (India)
10.00-10.20 Questions & answers
10.20-10.40 Break
10.40-12.20 Plenary Symposium
TIPS AND PITFALLS IN MINIMALLY INVASIVE NEUROSURGERY
Chairmen: Armando Basso (Argentina), Francesco Tomasello (Italy)
10.40-10.55 Tips and pitfalls in minimally invasive neurosurgery
Jacques Brotchi (Belgium)
10.55-11.10 Endoscopic management of intracranial arachnoid cysts
Gianpiero Tamburrini (Italy)
11.10-11.25 Alternative approaches for mininvasive surgery of sellar and
parasellar lesions
Paolo Ferroli (Italy)
11.25-11.40 Surgical treatment of brain stem hemangioblastoma: techniques and complications
Ying Mao (China)
11.40-11.55 The application of ICG videoangiography in cerebrovascular surgery
Yoko Kato (Japan)
11.55-12.20 Questions & answers
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FRIDAY, 23 MARCH 2012
AUDITORIUM
12.20-13.15 Oral Presentations 5
Chairmen: Debora Garozzo (Italy), Emiliano Passacantilli (Italy)
12.20-12.23 Treatment of trigeminal neuralgia: role of radiosurgery, microvascular decompression, percutaneous procedures
Mario Francesco Fraioli (Italy)
12.23-12.26 DBS practice for behaviour disorders in Italy
Angelo Lavano, Rosa Marotta, Marisa De Rose, Angelo Franzini (Italy)
12.26-12.29 Trigeminal neuralgia: a rational, long-term and non-destructive approach
Sujoy Sanyal (India)
12.29-12.32
Accuracy of an innovative system for stereotactic neurosurgery (StereoPod): a preliminary cadaver study
Rémi Charrier, Henri Monin, David Haag, Jean-Philippe Thiran, Claudio Pollo (Switzerland)
12.32-12.35 Anterior selective amigdalo-hippocampectomy: report of 2 cases
Mauricio Mandel, Matheus Schmidt Soares, Felippe Saad,
Eberval Gadelha Figueiredo, Manoel Jacobsen Teixeira (Brazil)
12.35-12.38
Tailored motor strip excision to treat adult on set Rasmussen’s
syndrome
Giovanni Tringali, Carlo Efisio Marras, Flavio Villani,
Giuseppe Didato, Morgan Broggi, Roberto Spreafico,
Angelo Franzini, Giovanni Broggi (Italy)
12.38-12.41
Precise study: an observational, pre-versus-post, multicentre study to evaluate cost-utility and cost-effectiveness of spinal cord
stimulation in reducing pain in patients with failed back surgery syndrome compared to conventional medical management
Angelo Lavano (Italy)
12.41-12.44 Single-portal ventriculoscopic resection of solid intraventricular tumors
Sujoy K. Sanyal (India)
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FRIDAY, 23 MARCH 2012
AUDITORIUM
12.20-13.15
12.44-12.47
Oral Presentations 5 (cont.)
Minimally invasive approach to contusional hematomas: the role of neuroendoscopy
Mauricio Mandel, Marcelo Prudente do Espirito Santo,
Robson Amorim, Almir Ferreira de Andrade,
Manoel Jacobsen Teixeira (Brazil)
12.47-12.50
Efficacy of sacral nerve stimulation in treatment of pelvic pain
syndrome
Angelo Lavano, Marisa De Rose, Giusy Guzzi,
Alessandra Giaquinta, Serena Marianna Lavano,
Federica Deodato (Italy)
12.50-12.53
Intradural, extramedullary spinal lesions. Five years,
single-institution radiosurgery experience
Marcello Marchetti, Valentina Pinzi, Ida Milanesi,
Angelo Franzini, Paolo Ferroli, Giovanni Broggi,
Francesco Di Meco, Laura Fariselli (Italy)
12.53-12.56
Single and multi-session radiosurgery for cavernous sinus
meningiomas. Single institution experience
Marcello Marchetti, Ida Milanesi, Valentina Pinzi,
Angelo Franzini, Paolo Ferroli, Giovanni Broggi,
Francesco Di Meco, Laura Fariselli (Italy)
12.56-12.59
SCS failures in treatment of refractory chronic pain
Angelo Lavano, Giorgio Volpentesta, Marisa De Rose,
Giusy Guzzi, Giuseppe Vescio, Federica Deodato,
Serena Marianna Lavano (Italy)
12.59-13.15 Discussion
ROOM VERDE
12.20-13.15 Oral Presentations 6
Chairmen: Riccardo Boccaletti (Italy), Marco Maria Fontanella (Italy)
12.20-12.23 Endonasal transphenoidal excision of pituitary tumours, experience at Jinnah Hospital, Lahore
Kashif Sultan (Pakistan)
12.23-12.26 Navigation guided endoscopic endonasal surgery for lesions in the anterior skull base cisterns
Azmi Alias (Malaysia)
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FRIDAY, 23 MARCH 2012
ROOM VERDE
12.20-13.15
12.26-12.29
Oral Presentations 6 (cont.)
New electromagnetic neuronavigator neuroPANACEA on
endoscopy endonasal approach
Luis Jara Castellanos (Spain)
12.29-12.32
Pure endoscopic brain stem biopsy through the foramen of magendie
Michel Triffaux, François Waterkeyn, Vincent Marneffe,
Alain Tyberghien, Sophie Cvilic, Inès Origer, Oliver Lermen
(Belgium)
12.32-12.35
Microscopic and endoscopic 3D surgical anatomy of the far lateral approach
Giulio Anichini, Davide Boeris, Alexander Evins,
Emiliano Passacantilli, Jacopo Lenzi, Antonio Santoro,
Antonio Bernardo, Phillip Stieg (Italy, USA)
12.35-12.38
Reconstructive surgery and results of nerve repair in cases of
complex brachial plexus injuries
Lukas Rasulic, Miroslav Samardzic, Vladimir Bascarevic,
Milan Jovanovic, Irena Cvrkota, Andrija Savic, Mirko Micovic (Serbia)
12.38-12.41 Ultrasound assisted neurosurgery. The Burr-Hole probe
applications
Klaus Dieter Maria Resch (Germany)
12.41-12.44
Endoscopic spine surgery with Easy GO: an analysis after 200 procedures
Joachim Oertel, Sonja Vulcu, Mark Phlipps, Michael Gaab
(Germany)
12.44-12.47
Unilateral approach for the treatment of multilevel lumbar spinal stenosis
Natale Francaviglia, Nicola Alberio, Raffaele Alessandrello,
Giovanni Cinquemani, Cesare Gambadoro, Rita Lipani,
Angelo Spitaleri (Italy)
12.47-12.50 If and when an interlaminar elastic assistance device can stop or reverse the degenerative cascade of the lumbar spine?
Lorenzo Paoli, Alessandro Vagaggini (Italy)
12.50-12.53 Portal endoscopic methods of treatment of lumbar disc herniations. 10 years experience
Sergey Arestov, Artyom Gushcha, Alexey Kashcheev (Russia)
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ROOM VERDE
12.20-13.15 Oral Presentations 6 (cont.)
12.53-12.56 Cystic craniopharyngioma: trans-sphenoidal surgery and
intra-cystic apposition of “bleomycin wax”
Federica Novegno (Italy)
12.56-12.59 Single stage image-guided surgery for multiple brain metastases
Morgan Broggi, Paolo Ferroli, Francesco Acerbi,
Giovanni Tringali, Angelo Franzini, Giovanni Broggi (Italy)
12.59-13.02
Minimally invasive treatment of spontaneous intracerebral
hemorrahge: analysis of 47 consecutive cases
Nicola Alberio, Natale Francaviglia, Raffaele Alessandrello,
Cesare Gambadoro, Giovanni Cinquemani, Rita Lipani,
Angelo Spitaleri (Italy)
13.02-13.15 Discussion
13.15-14.00 Lunch break
14.00-14.50 Invited Lectures
14.00-14.30
14.30-14.50
AUDITORIUM
Evolution of neurological approaches: from maximum to minimal
Madjid Samii (Germany)
Endoscopic approaches to intraventricular cystic lesions
Sampath Somanna (India)
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FRIDAY, 23 MARCH 2012
AUDITORIUM
14.50-16.30 PARALLEL SESSIONS
14.50-15.10
15.10-15.25
15.25-15.40
15.40-15.55
15.55-16.10
16.10-16.30
14.50-15.10
15.10-15.30
Symposium
MININVASIVE APPROACHES FOR INTRADURAL
EXTRAMEDULLARY TUMORS
Chairmen: Giacarlo Guizzardi (Italy), Junichi Mizuno (Japan)
Lecture
Minimal invasive approaches for intraspinal tumors: remembering Axel Perneczky
Nikolai J. Hopf (Germany)
Mininvasive approaches for I.E.T. in cervical and thoracic spine
Feng Zeng Jian (China)
Minimum invasive surgery for CVJ ventral lesions through
postero-lateral approach
Kazutoshi Hida (Japan)
Minimally invasive surgery in intramedullar hemangioblastomas
Jacques Brotchi (Belgium)
The treatment of the “recurrences” in I.E.T.
Natale Francaviglia (Italy) vs Laura Fariselli (Italy)
Questions & answers
ROOM VERDE
Symposium
PERIPHERAL NERVE
Chairman: Alberto Alexandre (Italy), Indira Devi Bhagavatula (India)
New frontiers in facial nerve repair
Stefano Ferraresi (Italy)
C5-C6 avulsive injuries of the brachial plexus: results of a new personal technique
Stefano Ferraresi (Italy)
15.30-15.45 Open method of carpal tunnel decompression is also minimally invasive
Indira Devi Bhagavatula (India)
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ROOM VERDE
Symposium
PERIPHERAL NERVE (cont.)
15.45-15.55 Peripheral selective neurotomy in the treatment of focal spasticity Vittoria Nazzi (Italy)
15.55-16.05 MPNST (malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors): indications to surgical treatment and results
Debora Garozzo (Italy)
16.05-16.30 Questions & Answers
16.30-17.00 Closing remarks and ISMINS awards
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AUDITORIUM
POSTERS
P1 Clarification / modification of the minimally invasive vertical parasagittal
hemispherotomy technique illustrated by intra-operative pictures and
post-operative MRI
Sujoy K. Sanyal (India) P2 Sacral nerve stimulation in patients with urinary and fecal incontinence
Marisa De Rose, Giusy Guzzi, Mary Romano, Federica Deodato,
Serena Marianna Lavano, Angelo Lavano (Italy)
P3 Finger-dissection for large meningiomas without major vessel invasion:
cutting down surgical time, intraoperative bleeding, brain dissection and
neurological complications
Sujoy K. Sanyal (India) P4 Endoscopic pernasal pituitary surgery: different cases different techniques
Klaus Dieter Maria Resch (Germany)
P5 Minimally invasive neuroendoscopic treatment for CSF pathway obstructions
Azmi Alias (Malaysia)
P6 Minimally invasive neuroendoscopic approach to acute subdural hematomas:
report of two cases
Mauricio Mandel, Marcelo Prudente do Espirito Santo, Diana Lara Pinto de Santana, Almir Ferreira de Andrade, Manoel Jacobsen Teixeira (Brazil)
P7 Two-portal endoscopic carpal tunnel release under median and ulnar nerve
blocks using self-designed and locally manufactured low-cost instruments
Sujoy K. Sanyal (India) P8 3D preoperative planning in the ER with OSIRIX (r): when there is no time for
neuronavigation
Mauricio Mandel, Almir Ferreira de Andrade, Manoel Jacobsen Teixeira (Brazil)
P9 Subsequent vertebral displacement following spinal arthrodesis for
degenerative lumbosacral disease. Follow-up
Milangel Padilla Gomez (Venezuela)
P10 INTRAspine device for the treatment of lumbar distability. Results tested by Spine Mouse postural control
Alberto Alexandre, Luca Corò, Andrea Maria Alexandre, Marco Brunori (Italy)
P11 Lumbar disc herniation treatment with microdiscectomy versus intradiscal
oxygen-ozone injections
Alberto Alexandre, Luca Corò, Andrea Maria Alexandre, Roberto Paradiso (Italy)
P12 Balloon-kyphoplasty for vertebral compression fractures
Luca Arpino, Pierpaolo Nina, Vincenzo Vitiello (Italy)
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POSTERS
P13 Pre-procedure planning, bipedicular approach, cavity creation: decreasing fluoroscopy time, increasing safety, increasing cement volume injection during
vertebroplasty
Sujoy K. Sanyal (India) P14 Collision lesions: non functioning pituitary macroadenoma and giant
suprasellar Rathke cleft cyst in an elderly woman. Minimally invasive
transsphenoidal surgical treatment
Corrado D’Arrigo (Italy)
P15 Single-stage total onyx obliteration of AVM’S: possibilities and risks
Sujoy K. Sanyal (India) P16 High incidence of silent opposite carotid occlusion / stenosis in Eastern
India prompting the use of angioplasty and stenting for contralateral
carotid stenosis
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VIDEO SESSION
V1 Advanced technology in AVM surgery: combined neurovascular approach in hybrid OR
Hiroki Kurita, Hidetoshi Ooigawa, Takeshi Ogura, Ririko Takeda,
Goji Fushihara, Shin-ichiro Yoshikawa, Daisuke Okada, Shoichiro Ishihara (Japan)
V2 Minimally invasive surgery for the kissing aneurysms of the internal carotid artery: operative nuance
Ririko Takeda, Hidetoshi Ooigawa, Takeshi Ogura, Goji Fushihara,
Shinnichiro Yoshikawa, Daisuke Okada, Hiroki Kurita (Japan) V3 Transciliary supraorbital keyhole approach in management of middle
cerebral artery aneurysms: operative nuances
Harjinder Bhatoe (India)
V4 “Four hands-four eyes” extended endoscopic transphenoidal approach versus
interhemispheric fronto-basal craniotomy for the treatment of midline
suprasellar craniopharyngiomas
Paolo Ferroli, Morgan Broggi, Melina Castiglione, Marco Schiariti,
Francesco Acerbi, Giovanni Tringali, Giovanni Broggi (Italy)
V5 Micro-endoscopic-discectomy for extraforaminal disc herniations in the
lumbar spine
Patrizio Cervellini (Italy)
V6 Full endoscopic lumbar discectomy: pitfalls and crucial points
Hikmet Ulug, Tolga Gediz, Soner Buyukkinaci (Turkey)
V7 Thoracic disc herniactions: minimally invasive approaches
Patrizio Cervellini (Italy)
V8 Endoscopy-, ultrasound- und laser-assisted microneurosurgery
Klaus Dieter Maria Resch, Peter Ulrich (Germany) V9 Minimally invasive supraorbital approach to extra- and intra-axial lesions of the anterior cranial fossa
Concetta Alafaci, Maria Caffo, Mariano Cutugno, Francesca Granata, Francesco Tomasello (Italy)
V10 Tips, bases, and pitfalls in distal trans-Sylvian key-hole approach for MCA aneurysms
Ririko Takeda, Hidetoshi Ooigawa, Takeshi Ogura, Goji Fushihara,
Shinnichiro Yoshikawa, Daisuke Okada, Hiroki Kurita (Japan)
V11 Removal of a giant infra and suprasellar craniopharyngioma with a double minimally invasive procedure: endonasal direct paraseptal and transcranial fronto-lateral translamina terminalis key hole approach
Corrado D’Arrigo (Italy)
V12 Diaphragma sellae and tuberculum meningiomas: role of extended
transsphenoidal approach
Mario Lecce (Italy)
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VIDEO SESSION
V13 Microsurgical approach via lamina terminalis for third ventricle
craniopharyngioma
Mario Francesco Fraioli (Italy)
V14 Sacral nerve stimulation with percutaneous tined lead: implantation
technique
Angelo Lavano (Italy)
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