
WFNS Educational Course
BRAZIL(Belem)
July 23-24,2013
Pre-Course: July 22
15:00-17:00 Lecture open to the public in Japanese Town
Day 1: July 23
8:00-8:20 Opening remarks:
Local Organizer: Prof. Hildo R.Cirne de Azevedo-Filho
'Current status of neurosurgery & neurosurgeons in Brazil’
8:20-10:50 Session 1-How I do it/Technical note
Moderators: AV Ciurea, Ricardo Ramina
The role of prophylatic anti-epileptics drugs in Neurosurgery - Hildo R.Cirne de Azevedo-Filho
Exercises with clinical cases (gives much practical touch) - Remberto Burgos de la Espriella
Surgical Treatment of Brain AVMs - Atos Alves de Sousa
Neurosurgical treatments for Trigeminal neuralgia - Yves Keravel
ICP Monitoring . Why ? When ? How? - Ápio Cláudio Martins Antunes
10:50-11:00 CoffeeBreak
11:00-12:30 Session 2-Cerebrovascular
Moderators: Ápio Claudio Martins Antunes, Paulo Henrique Pires de Aguiar
Colloid Cysts of the Third Ventricle - Hildo R.Cirne de Azevedo-Filho
Clips vs Coils - Yoko Kato
Management of giant and complex aneurysms - Yoko Kato
12:40-13:30 Lunch
13:40-15:10 Session 3- Brain Tumor
Moderators: Concezio Di Rocco , Sebastião Nataniel Silva Gusmão
Surgical strategy for large parasellar meningioma - Shigeru Nishizawa
Medulloblastomas - AV Ciurea
Advanced MRI to evaluate pathophysiology of brain tumors -especially on histological differential diagnosis and prognosis of the patients - Kaoru Kurisu
15:10-15:20 CoffeeBreak
15:20-16:50 Session 4- Endoscope
Moderators: Hildo R.Cirne de Azevedo-Filho,Samuel Tau Zimberg
Endoscopic approaches in Lumbar Degenerative Diseases - Enrique Osorio-Fonseca
Endoscopic surgery - Mitsunori Matsumae
Endoscopy in children - Federico Di Rocco
16:50-17:00 CoffeeBreak
17:00-17:30 Session 5-DVS
Moderators: Shigeru Nishizawa, Osvaldo Vilela Filho
DVS:Present and future - Yves Keravel
Day 2: July 24
8:00-8:30 Session 6- Trauma
Moderators: Kaoru Kurisu, José Luciano Gonçálves Araújo
Decompressive craniectomy in malignant middle cerebral infarction – Indications and limitations - Ápio Cláudio Martins Antunes
8:35-10:05 Session 7-Pediatric
Moderators: Mitsunori Matsumae, Benício Oton Lima
Temporal arachnoid cysts - Concezio Di Rocco
Traumatic brain injuries (craniocerebral trauma) in children aged 0-3 - AV Ciurea
Complex craniosynostoses - Federico Di Rocco
10:05-10:20 CoffeeBreak
(tee conference with Female neurosurgeons)
10:20-12:20 Session 8- Spine
Moderators: Yves Keravel, Marcos Masini
Lumbar Instability and pain. New perspectives - Armando Basso
Spinal lipomas - Concezio Di Rocco
Three dimensional and 4 dimensional MDR-CT for spinal vascular lesions - its usefulness and efficacy of these expression - Kaoru Kurisu
Adjacent segment disease (ASD) - Remberto Burgos de la Espriella
12:30-13:20 Lunch
13:30-15:00 Session 9-Cerebrovascular
Moderators: Enrique Osorio-Fonseca, Jean Gonçaves de Oliveira
Carotid endarterectomy X angioplasty with stent - Atos Alves de Sousa
Natural history of Aneurismal SAH: CT grading and factors influencing rebleeding and vasospasm - Hildo R.Cirne de Azevedo-Filho
Cisternostomy- End of a century of Decompressive hemicranictomies? - Iype Cherian
15:00-15:10 CoffeeBreak
15:10-16:40 Session 10- Brain Tumor
Moderators: Atos Alves De Sousa, Marcos Tatagiba
Acoustic Neurinomas - Armando Basso
Surgical strategy and problems for large craniopharyngioma - Shigeru Nishizawa
Surgery of the CP angle tumor - Mitsunori Matsumae
Hospital Trip
End of the course