DAY 1 | Tuesday, May 1, 2012 · Carlos Botella (Spain) ... Anne-Claire Ricci-Franchi, Pierre-Aurelien Beuriat, Timothée Jacquesson, Patrick Mertens (France) SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM Page

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DAY 1 | Tuesday, May 1, 2012

09:00-14:00 REGISTRATION

Hall A

14:00-14:10 WELCOME ADDRESS & OPENING LECTURE

WELCOME ADDRESS

Willem J.R. van Ouwerkerk (The Netherlands)

Hall A

14:10-16:10 SESSION 1: CRANIOFACIAL

Moderators: Massimo Caldarelli (Italy), James Goodrich (USA)

OP-01 MICROARRAY PROFILING OF NON SYNDROMIC CRANIOSYNOSTOSIS: A ROLE FOR THE ASSEMBLAGE OF CENTROSOME-DERIVED STRUCTURES IN THE PATHOGENESIS OF CALVARIAL MALFORMATIONS

052 Wanda Lattanzi, Camilla Bernardini, Maria Concetta Geloso, Luca Massimi, Marta

Barba, Gianpiero Tamburrini, Fabrizio Michetti, Concezio Di Rocco (Italy)

OP-02 RETROSPECTIVE STUDY OF ANTROPOMETRY IN 129 CHILDREN WITH CRANIOSYNOSTOSIS 023 Leopoldo Mandic Furtado, Jose Aloysio Costa Val Filho, Marcelo Jose Silva, Paulo

Mallard Scaldaferri, Guilherme Baptista, Helton Paula, Arthur Nicolato (Brazil)

OP-03 CORRELATIONS BETWEEN THE ABNORMAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE SKULL BASE AND FACIAL SKELETON GROWTH IN ANTERIOR SYNOSTOTIC PLAGIOCEPHALY: THE PREDICTIVE VALUE OF A CLASSIFICATION BASED ON CT SCAN EXAMINATION

058 Sandro Pelo, Concezio Di Rocco, Gianpiero Tamburrini, Giulio Gasparini (Italy)

OP-04 SYNDROMIC AND COMPLEX CRANIOSYNOSTOSIS: A MORPHOMETRIC STUDY OF THE FORAMEN MAGNUM

130 Bianca Rijken, Maarten Lequin, Irene Mathijssen (Netherlands)

OP-05 3D STEREOPHOTOGRAMMETRIC ANALYSIS OF PATHOMORPHOLOGY AND MOULDING THERAPY OF POSITIONAL PLAGIOCEPHALY

193 Tilmann Schweitzer, Hartmut Böhm, Philipp Meyer-Marcotty, Jürgen Krauß (Germany)

OP-06 PRE OPERATORY PLANNING IN CRANIOSYNOSTOSIS 207 Giselle Caselato, Rainer G. Haetinger, Ricardo Mendes Rogério, Vera Cardim, Nelci

Zanon (Brazil)

OP-07 PRE- AND POSTOPERATIVE MANAGEMENT OF PATIENTS WITH NON-SYNDROMIC CRANIOSYNOSTOSIS

148 Martina Messing-Jünger, Holger Maas, Andreas Röhrig, Sergey Persits, Markus

Martini (Germany)

OP-08 MODEL-BASED CRANIAL RECONSTRUCTION 249 Haberl Hannes, Mascha Sofie Hochfeld (Germany)

OP-09 HINDBRAIN HERNIATION WITH SYNDROMIC CRANIOSYNOSTOSIS DOES NOT COMMONLY INDUCE SLEEP APNEA

040 Caroline Driessen, Koen Joosten, Maarten Lequin, Marie-Lise van Veelen, Ruben Dammers, Tasker Robert, Irene Mathijssen (Netherlands & USA)


OP-10 EVALUATION OF OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA IN PEDIATRIC PATIENTS WITH FACIO-CRANIOSTENOSIS

060 Giulio Gasparini, Gianpiero Tamburrini, Concezio Di Rocco, Sandro Pelo (Italy)

OP-11 NEURODEVELOPMENTAL ASPECTS OF NON-SYNDROMIC CRANIOSYNOSTOSIS 231 Dawid Larysz, Patrycja Larysz, Wojciech Wolanski, Marek Gzik, Marek Mandera

(Poland)

Moderators: Martina Messing-Jünger (Germany), Gianpiero Tamburrini (Italy)

FP-01 SPIRAL OSTEOTOMY IN CRANIAL AUGMENTATION AND MODELING FOR CRANIOSYNOSTOSIS 085 Oscar García-González, Gabriel Huerta-Hernández, Araceli Alonso-Mercado (Mexico)

FP-02 BIOMECHANICAL ASPECTS OF PREOPERATIVE PLANNING OF ENDOSCOPY ASSISTED CRANIAL REMODELING IN CHILDREN WITH NON-SYNDROMIC CRANIOSYNOSTOSIS

211 Larysz Dawid, Wolanski Wojciech, Larysz Patrycja, Gzik Marek, Mandera Marek

(Poland)

FP-03 SURGICAL CORRECTION FOR UNILATERAL LAMBDOID SYNOSTOSIS: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW 033 Al- Talal Jabri, Simon Eccles (United Kingdom)

FP-04 ENDOSCOPY-ASSISTED VERSUS OPEN REPAIR OF SAGITTAL CRANIOSYNOSTOSIS: THE UTRECHT EXPERIENCE

074 Peter Woerdeman, Sen Han, Bo Verwer, Marvick Muradin, Bart Stubenitsky (Netherlands)

FP-05 OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTIVE EVALUATION OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF A MINI-INVASIVE SCALP APPROACH IN SAGITTAL CRANIOSYNOSTOSIS SURGERY

243 Grégoire Pech-Gourg, Didier Scavarda, Gabriel Lena (France)

FP-06 HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE AND VOLUME MEASUREMENTS AFTER EXTENDED SRIP CRANIOTOMY AND TOTAL CRANIAL VAULT REMODELING FOR SCAPHOCEPHALY

179 Marie-Lise Van Veelen, Marielle Jippes, Johan De Rooij, Leon Van Adrichem, Irene Mathijssen (Netherlands)

FP-07 FUNCTIONAL SIGNIFICANCE OF SURGERY FOR SAGITTAL SYNOSTOSIS: RISK FOR CHIARI 1 MALFORMATION IN UNTREATED AND OPERATED SERIES OF 100 CHILDREN

125 Laura Valentini, Veronica Saletti, Sergio Visintini, Alessandra Erbetta, Francesco Peia,

Marica Furlanetto (Italy)

FP-08 APLASIA CUTIS CONGENITA - BONE GROWTH AFTER SURGICAL TREATMENT 166 Benicio Oton-de Lima, Eduardo Waihrich, Marcio Marcelino (Brazil)

FP-08b SECONDARY CRANIOSYNOSTOSIS AFTER SHUNTING 281 Joseph N. Guilburd (Israel)

Hall B

14:20-15:10 SESSION 2: EPILEPSY

Moderators: Sandrine de Ribeaupierre (Switzerland), Helio R. Machado (Brazil)

OP-12 EPILEPTOGENIC BRAIN LESIONS IN CHILDREN: THE ADDED-VALUE OF COMBINED DIFFUSION IMAGING AND PROTON MR SPECTROSCOPY TO THE PRESURGICAL DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS

101 Didier Scavarda, Slim Fellah, Gregoire Pech-Gourg, Sylviane Confort-Gouny, Nadine

Girard, Dominique Figarella-Branger, Gabriel Lena (France)


OP-13 MRI-DTI APPLICATIONS ON EPILEPSY SURGERY IN PEDIATRIC POPULATION 134 Rebeca Conde, Giovanni Pancucci, Rocio Evangelista, Antonio Gutierrez, Manuel Vila,

Carlos Botella (Spain)

OP-14 TOWARD A SIMPLIFIED FRAMELESS COMPUTER ASSISTED METHODOLOGY FOR INTRACRANIAL DEPTH ELECTRODES IMPLANTATION IN PEDIATRIC REFRACTORY EPILEPSY: PRELIMINARY RESULTS

230 Didier Scavarda, Gregoire Pech Gourg, Mathieu Milh, Nathalie Villeneuve, Nadine Girard, Fabrice Bartolomei, Gabriel Lena (France)

OP-15 SEIZURE CONTROL AFTER EPILEPSY SURGERY: EXPERIENCE IN YOUNG CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS

099 Benoit Jenny, El Yassine Hassani, Shahan Momjian, Claudio Pollo, Margitta Seeck,

Karl Schaller (Switzerland)

OP-16 MULTILOBAR AND HEMISPHERIC DISCONNECTIVE EPILEPSY SURGERY: A SINGLE CENTER EXPERIENCE IN 43 PEDIATRIC PATIENTS

225 Dorfer Christian, Martha Feucht, Anastasia Dressler, Angelika Mühlebner, Klaus

Novak, Thomas Czech (Austria)

SP-01 TEMPORAL ENCEPHALOCOELE: A SURGICALLY REMEDIABLE CAUSE OF TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY

020 Thomas Curl-Roper, Lucy O'Connor, Nicola Reeves, Vivek Josan (United Kingdom)

Hall B

15:10-16:10 SESSION 3: MISCELLANEOUS

Moderators: Il Woo Lee (Korea), Marcin Roszkowski (Poland)

OP-17 SURGICAL REVASCULARISATION FOR CHILDHOOD MOYAMOYA 078 Dominic Thompson, Joanne Ng, Dawn Saunders, John Lumley, Vijeya Ganesan

(United Kingdom)

OP-18 ADDITIONAL SURGERY FOR POSTOPERATIVE ISCHEMIC SYMPTOMS IN PATIENTS WITH MOYAMOYA DISEASE

097 Reizo Shirane, Toshiaki Hayashi, Tomomi Kimiwada, Teiji Tominaga (Japan)

SP-02 MOYAMOYA DISEASE: TWO DIFFERENT TECHNIQUES IN THE SAME PATIENT - CASE REPORT AND SURGICAL CONSIDERATIONS

218 Alexandre Casagrande Canheu, Marcio Francisco Lehmman, Carlos Alexandre

Zicarelli, Sérgio Murilo Georgeto, Marcos Antonio Dias, Fahd Haddad (Brazil)

SP-03 INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSMS IN CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS: A 13-YEAR EXPERIENCE 198 Daniel Dahlberg, Angelika Sorteberg, Bernt Johan Due-Tønnessen (Norway)

SP-04 PYCNODYSOSTOSIS, RAISED INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE AND VENOUS SINUS HYPOPLASIA: A NEW DISEASE PROCESS?

203 Farouk Olubajo, Ahilan Kailaya-Vasan, Anuj Bahl, Ashok Raghavan, Sinha Saurabh (United Kingdom)

SP-05 CAVERNOUS MALFORMATION IN THE ANTERO-INFERIOR BASAL ANGLIA / HYPOTHALAMUS: SUPRAORBITAL CRANIOTOMY AND INFRACAROTID INFRAFRONTAL ENDOSCOSPICALLY ASSISTED APPROACH

061 Amets Sagarribay, Miguel Correia, Mário Matos, António Baptista, Carla Conceição (Portugal)

OP-19 CREATING A WORKING GROUP FOR PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT AS A VENUE TO FACILITATE NEUROSURGICAL HEALTH CARE DELIVERY

007 Hector James, Teresa MacGregor, Philipp Aldana (USA)


OP-20 SURVEILLANCE OF POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS: RESULTS OF A SINGLE CENTER EXPERIENCE OVER A TWO-YEAR PERIOD

107 Laura Lippa, Flavio Giordano, Michele Parolin, Regina Mura, Mirko Scagnet, Federico

Mussa, Barbara Spacca, Lorenzo Genitori (Italy)

16:10-16:30 COFFEE BREAK | POSTER VIEWING

Hall A 16:30-17:30 SESSION 4: TECHNIQUE

Moderators: Marek Mandera (Poland), Nelci Zanon (Brazil)

OP-21 REDUCTION CRANIOPLASTY FOR MAJOR MACROCEPHALY AND SKULL DEFORMITY IN SEVERE SHUNTED HYDROCEPHALUS: A REPORT OF 14 SURGERIES IN 9 PATIENTS

232 Liana Beni-Adani, Naresh Biyani, Aviel Zilbiger, Yossi Benary, Shlomi Constantini (Israel)

OP-22 NOVEL IMPLANTS OF BIOACTIVE GLASS AND E-GLASS FIBER COMPOSITE FOR LARGE CRANIAL DEFECTS

039 Willy Serlo, Ville Vuorinen, Kalle Aitasalo, Pekka Vallittu (Finland)

OP-23 TRACTOGRAPHY AND NEURONAVIGATION: A NEW IMPORTANT TOOL FOR OPTIMIZING BRAIN LESIONS RESECTION?

206 Giselle Caselato, Rainer G. Haetinger, Ricardo Mendes Rogério, Nelci Zanon (Brazil)

OP-24 THE EXPANDING ROLE OF ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY IN PAEDIATRIC NEUROSURGICAL PATIENTS - GETTING MORE OUT OF THE NOSE!

135 Anthony Jesurasa, Ankur Saxena, Showkat Mirza, Saurabh Sinha (United Kingdom)

OP-25 TREATMENT OF MALFORMATIONS OF THE SKULL BASE IN CHILDREN BY NEUROENDOSCOPY, GUIDED BY NEURONAVIGATION. CASE DISCUSSION AND TECHNICAL CONSIDERATIONS

147 Valeria Muoio, Paulo Napoli, Sergio Suzuki, Paulo Terzian, Renata Mori, Bruno Lopes,

Fabio Castro, Osmar Moraes (Brazil)

OP-26 PURE ENDOSCOPIC ARACHNOID CYSTS MANAGEMENT IN INFANTS 244 Petr Vacek, David Štěpánek (Czech Republic)

OP-27 COMBINED APPROACH FOR TREATMENT OF AN INTRAVENTRICULAR CHOROID PLEXUS PAPILLOMA: FIRST ENDOSCOPIC COAGULATION AND VENTRICULOCISTERNOSTOMY OF THE THIRD VENTRICLE FOLLOWED BY MICROSURGICAL PARASAGITTAL TRANSVENTRICULAR TANS SEPTAL REMOVAL (VIDEO PRESENTATION)

269 Timothée Jacquesson, Alexandru Szathmari, Pierre Aurelien Beuriat, Carmine Mottolese (France)

OP-28 FERROMAGNETIC DISSECTION: A NEW ENERGY MODALITY TO IMPROVE PRECISION OF NEURAL TISSUE INCISION, SEALING, AND COAGULATION

274 Jotham C. Manwaring, Joel MacDonald, Kim Manwaring, Harry Van Loveren (USA)

Hall B

16:30-18:30 SESSION 5a: HYDROCEPHALUS

Moderators: Takayuki Inagaki (Japan), Wan Tew Seow (Singapore)

OP-29 VASCULARIZATION OF THE FLOOR OF THE THIRD VENTRICLE: AN ANATOMICAL AND SURGICAL STUDY IN ENDOSCOPIC CONDITION RELATED TO PEDIATRIC PATIENTS

216 Carmine Mottolese, Alexandru Szathmari, Emile Simon, Anne-Claire Ricci-Franchi,

Pierre-Aurelien Beuriat, Timothée Jacquesson, Patrick Mertens (France)


OP-30 THE VENOUS PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF CHRONIC OVERDRAINAGE SYNDROME 112 Martin U. Schuhmann, Florian H. Ebner, Andreas Speil, Marcos Tatagiba, Marco

Skardelly (Germany)

OP-31 VENOUS SINUS OBSTRUCTION IN PEDIATRIC INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION AND HYDROCEPHALUS

050 Dwyer Chris, Prelog Kristina, Owler Brian (Australia)

OP-32 PATHOPHYSIOLOGY AND TREATMENT IN HYDROCEPHALUS WITH PREPONTINE CISTERNAL TRAPPING

066 Kenichi Nishiyama, Masakazu Miyajima, Ulrich Thomale, Yukihiko Fujii, Hajime Arai

(Japan & Germany)

OP-33 SPONTANEOUS INTRACRANIAL HYPOTENSION IN CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE 209 Wouter I. Schievink, Marcel M. Maya (USA)

OP-34 LATE PSYCHOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF CHILDREN WITH CONGENITAL HYDROCEPHALUS 011 Radovan Mijalcic, Mirjana Nagulic, Miroslav Samardzic, Lukas Rasulic, Igor

Jovanovic, Vladimir Bascarevic, Mirko Micovic, Irena Cvrkota (Serbia)

Moderators: Wolfgang Wagner (Germany), Hannes Haberl (Germany)

FP-09 SHUNTED HYDROCEPHALUS AND EPILEPTIC SEIZURES 245 Mercia Gondim, Aurea de Melo, Angelo Silva Neto (Brazil)

FP-10 CONTRAST VENTRICULO-CISTERNOGRAPHY: AN AUXILIARY TEST FOR SUSPECTED FOURTH VENTRICULAR OUTLET OBSTRUCTION

005 Jonathan Roth, Liat Ben-Sira, Suhas Udayakumaran, Shlomi Constantini (Israel &

India)

FP-11 SUBOCCIPITAL ENDOSCOPIC MANAGEMENT OF ENTRAPPED FOURTH VENTRICLE: TECHNICAL NOTE

057 Alaa Abdelraouf (Egypt)

FP-12 SUBACUTE DEVELOPMENT OF TRAPPED FOURTH VENTRICLE IN CHILDREN WITH POSTHEMORRHAGIC HYDROCEPHALUS

228 Barbara Vienenkötter, Andreas Unterberg, Heidrun Bächli (Germany)

FP-13 SELECTIVE USE OF ENDOSCOPIC ASSISTED VENTRICULAR CATHETER PLACEMENT 004 Jonathan Roth, Shlomi Constantini (Israel)

FP-14 VERY LOW PRESSURE HYDROCEPHALUS IN A CHILD: CASE REPORT AND LITERATURE REVIEW 126 Laura Valentini, Luisa Chiapparini, Veronica Saletti (Italy)

FP-15 ENDOSCOPIC VENTRICULAR SHUNT CATHETER INSERTION AND REVISION IN THE PEDIATRIC HYDROCEPHALUS POPULATION: RISK FACTORS FOR FAILURE

132 Samer Elbabaa, Joel Simon (USA)

FP-16 TREATMENT OF COMPLEX HYDROCEPHALY WITH NEUROENDOSCOPY ELECTROMAGNETIC NAVIGATION (NEM): SERIES ANALYSIS OF NINE CASES

100 Leopoldo Mandic Furtado, José Costa Val Filho, José Silva Marcelo, Paulo Mallard

Scaldaferri, Guilherme Baptista, Helton Gonçalves de Paula (Brazil)

FP-17 THIRD VENTRICULOSTOMY IN INFANTS YOUNGER THAN 1 YEAR OLD 024 Leopoldo Mandic Furtado, Jose Aloysio Costa Val Filho, Marcelo Jose Silva, Paulo

Mallard Scaldaferri, Guilherme Baptista, Helton Paula, Arthur Nicolato (Brazil)


FP-18 HOW SUCCESSFUL IS ENDOSCOPIC THIRD VENTRICULOSTOMY IN REPLACING VENTRICULOPERITONEAL SHUNT AS TREATMENT FOR OBSTRUCTIVE HYDROCEPHALUS IN PATIENTS LESS THAN 2 YEARS OLD?

278 Louise F. Steele, Erlick A.C. Pereira, Peter G. Richards, Jayaratnam Jayamohan,

Shailendra Magdum (United Kingdom)

FP-19 ENDOSCOPIC THIRD VENTRICULOSTOMY FOR OBSTRUCTIVE NON COMMUNICATING HYDROCEPHALUS: EXPERIENCE WITH 200 PEDIATRIC CASES

164 Alaa Abdelraouf (Egypt)

FP-20 SUCCESS OF REPEAT ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY AFTER A FAILED INITIAL ETV IN CHILDREN 223 Volkan Etus, Hakan Karabagli (Turkey)

FP-21 THIRD ENDOSCOPIC VENTRICULOSTOMY IN A.CHIARI II. A TEN YEARS FOLLOW- UP 190 Silvio Machado, Amylcar Dvilevicious (Brazil)

Moderators: Alfred Aschoff (Germany), Frank van Calenbergh (Belgium)

SP-06 PAEDIATRIC BACTISEAL EXTERNAL VENTRICULAR DRAINS: A REPORT ON CSF SAMPLING TIME AND TIME TO INFECTION

180 Digant Kamdar, William Lo, David Davies, Marcelo Volpon, Mitul Patel, Guirish

Solanki (United Kingdom)

SP-07 VENTRICULOSUBGALEAL SHUNT IN THE TREATMENT OF POSTHEMORRHAGIC AND POSTINFECTIOUS HYDROCEPHALUS OF PREMATURE INFANTS

117 Laszlo Novak, Andrea Nagy, Istvan Pataki, Zoltan Barta, Balazs Markia, Laszlo

Bognar (Hungary)

SP-08 MANAGEMENT OF POST-INFECTIVE HYDROCEPHALUS - PLEA FOR A NEW PROTOCOL 084 Sandip Chatterjee (India)

SP-09 NEUROENDOSCOPY IN THE TREATMENT OF PERSISTENT VENTRICULITIS: REPORT OF THREE CASES AND A NEW APPROACH PROPOSAL

122 Humberto Belém Aquino, Enrico Ghizoni, Cesar Massami Yukita, Andrei Fernandes Joaquim, Helder Tedeschi (Brazil)

SP-10 SPONTANEOUS PNEUMOCEPHALUS IN A PATIENT WITH LONGSTANDING BRAIN TUMOR AND V-P SHUNT

118 Il Woo Lee, Hong Jae Lee, Jin Seok Yi (Korea)

SP-11 HYDROCEPHALUS AFTER INTRAVENTRICULAR HEMORRHAGE OF THE PREMATURE: WHAT ELSE CAN GO WRONG?

151 Marcia da Silva, Alexandre Varella, Renata Ditta (Brazil)

Hall A

17:30-17:55 SESSION 6: INFECTION

Moderators: Hakan Karabagli (Turkey), Juan Martínez Lage (Spain)

SP-15 POTT’S PUFFY TUMOR IN CHILDREN 105 Francisco J. Salomão, Tatiana Protzenko, Antonio Bellas (Brazil)

SP-16 PEDIATRIC CEREBRAL ABSCESS IN CHILDREN: A 15-YEAR NEUROSURGICAL STUDY 129 Marcelo Galarza, Cristina Barcelo, Pedro de la Rosa, Maria José Almagro, Juan F.

Martínez-Lage (Spain)

SP-17a PAEDIATRIC INTRACRANIAL EMPYEMA: A SINGLE INSTITUTION SERIES OF 30 CASES 009 Andreas Kyriacou Demetriades, Hye Kim, Chris Chandler, Sanj Bassi (United Kingdom)


SP-17b PAEDIATRIC INTRACRANIAL EMPYEMA: LESSONS FROM A SINGLE INSTITUTION SERIES AT A TERTIARY REFERRAL CENTRE IN LONDON

002 Andreas Kyriacou Demetriades, Hye Kim, Sanj Bassi, Chris Chandler (United Kingdom)

SP-18 A LIFE SAVING PARTIAL TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY IN A 13 YEAR OLD BOY WITH HSV ENCEPHALITIS

018 Michael Grant, Anand Iyer, Frank Potter, Conor Mallucci, Rachel Kneen (United

Kingdom)

Hall A

18:30 OPENING CEREMONY & WELCOME RECEPTION

OPENING LECTURE: A PEDIATRIC NEUROSURGEON TRAVELLING THROUGH THE MAZE OF BIBLIOMANIA: A LECTURE ON HOW NOT TO GET TRAPPED IN THE DISORDER OF BOOK COLLECTING AMONG OTHER DISORDERS James T. Goodrich (USA)


DAY 2 | Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Hall A

08:00-10:20 SESSION 7: ANTENATAL SURGERY IN SPINA BIFIDA

Moderators: Dominic Thompson (United Kingdom), Eelco Wieger Hoving (Netherlands)

KL-01 KEYNOTE LECTURE: STATE OF THE ART OF ANTENATAL SURGERY IN SPINA BIFIDA Martin Meuli (Switzerland)

IL-01 INTRA-UTERINE REPAIR OF MYELOMENIGOCELE; CURRENT STATE Sergio Cavalheiro (Brazil)

IL-02 ENDOSCOPY VS OPEN - CON’S OF INTRA-UTERINE REPAIR Michel Zerah (France)

IL-03 INTRAAMINIOTIC CAVITY STEM CELL INJECTION FOR PRENATAL SB IN CHICK EMBRYOS Chang Wang Kyu (Korea)

IL-04 PRENATAL SURGERY IN SPINA BIFIDA FOR THE DUTCH PATIENT Alex J. Eggink (Netherlands)

IL-05 MINIMALLY INVASIVE OR OPEN FETAL SURGERY: FETO-MATERNAL AND LOGISTIC IMPACT OF THE ACCESS ROUTE Jan Deprest (Belgium)

IL-06 ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS Catarina Rodrigues (Netherlands)

IL-07 NEUROLOGICAL FUNCTION AFTER FETAL ENDOSCOPIC CLOSURE OF MYELOMENIGOCELE. THE USE OF LEG MUSCLE ULTRASOUND DENSITY Deborah Sival (Netherlands)

LAST MINUTE ADDITION: MINIMALLY-INVASIVE FETOSCOPIC SURGERY FOR SPINA BIFIDA

Thomas Kohl (Germany)

OP-41 POSTPARTAL AND LONG TERM CLINICAL OUTCOME AFTER INTRAUTERINE MYELOMENINGOCELE REPAIR

144 Martina Messing-Jünger, Reinhold Cremer (Germany)

OP-42 OWN EXPERIENCE IN PRENATAL SURGERY DUE TO MENINGOMYELOCELE 049 Janusz Bohosiewicz, Tomasz Koszutski, Anita Olejek, Jacek Zamlynski, Joanna

Kowalik, Marek Mandera (Poland)


Hall A

10:40-11:30 SESSION 5b: HYDROCEPHALUS

Moderators: Reizo Shirane (Japan), Concezio di Rocco (Italy)

KL-02 KEYNOTE LECTURE: CLINICAL UTILITY OF THE NEW CLASSIFICATION OF HYDROCEPHALUS Harold Rekate (USA)

IL-08 X-LINKED HYDROCEPHALUS 128 Mami Yamasaki (Japan)


OP-35 SALOMON HAKIM AND HIS HYDROCEPHALUS VALVES 248 Alfred Aschoff, Barbara Vienenkötter (Germany)

SP-12 COGNITIVE ABILITY AND PSYCHOSOCIAL ADJUSTMENT IN ADOLESCENTS WITH CONGENITAL HYDROCEPHALUS

196 Claire Doyle, Dianne Gumley, Lindy May, Stephen Butler (United Kingdom)

SP-13 NEURODEVELOPMENTAL OUTCOME IN CHILDREN OPERATED ON FOR HYDROCEPHALUS 233 Patrycja Larysz, Dawid Larysz, Marek Mandera (Poland)

ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION

Hall A

11:30-12:30 SATELLITE SESSION 1: PREVENTION OF CSF INFECTIONS

Organized by CODMAN

12:30-13:30 LUNCH BREAK

Hall A

13:30-14:15 SESSION 5c: HYDROCEPHALUS

Moderators: Spyridon Sgouros (Greece), Marek Mandera (Poland)

OP-36 ICP-TELEMETRY: LUXURY-DIAGNOSTICS OR OECONOMICAL AND RADIATION-LIMITING NECESSITY?

268 Alfred Aschoff, Modar Kentar, Christopher Beynon, Berc Oracioglu (Germany)

OP-37 NATIONAL AUDIT OF VENTRICULOPERITONEAL SHUNT SURVIVAL IN CHILDREN IN THE UNITED KINGDOM

115 Priyank Sinha, Al-Tamimi Yahia, Darach Crimmins, John Thorne, Guirish Solanki,

Simon Thompson, Paul Chumas (United Kingdom)

OP-38 PROGNOSTIC FACTORS AND STANDARDIZED PROCEDURES OF TESTING SHUNT DEPENDENCE AFTER LONG-TERM SHUNT IMPLANTATION IN HYDROCEPHALUS

076 Alexandra Huthmann, Wolfgang Wagner (Germany)

OP-39 TREATMENT OF FETAL AND NEONATAL HYDROCEPHALUS AND ARACHNOIDAL CYSTS BY PROGRAMMABLE SHUNTS: PROS AND CONS

187 Francesco Peia, Vittoria Nazzi, Alessandra Erbetta, Andrea Righini, Marianna

Rustico, Veronica Saletti, Laura Valentini (Italy)

OP-40 1ST-YEAR-SHUNT-FAILURE RATE AS A CLINICAL QUALITY INDICATOR IN NEUROSURGICAL PRACTICE - AN INSTITUTIONAL EXPERIENCE

205 Wan Tew Seow (Singapore)

SP-14 LOW PRESSURE VALVES IN HYDROCEPHALIC CHILDREN; A RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS 272 Gerben E. Breimer, Deborah A. Sival, Eelco Wieger Hoving (Netherlands)

Hall A

14:15-15:30 SESSION 8a: DYSRAPHIA - CRANIO-SPINAL MALFORMATIONS

INTRODUCTION Willem J.R. van Ouwerkerk (Netherlands)

KL-03 KEYNOTE LECTURE: CHIARI - SYRINGOMYELIA - TETHERED CORD: DIAGNOSIS, TREATMENT, PROGNOSIS Jörg Klekamp (Germany)


Moderators: Jörg Klekamp (Germany), Massimo Caldarelli (Italy)

OP-43 CRANIAL AND CRANIOVERTEBRAL JUNCTION ANOMALIES IN A fgfr3Y367C/+ MOUSE: NEW INSIGHTS IN NORMAL AND PATHOLOGICAL SKULL GROWTH

102 Federico Di Rocco, Nabil Kaci, Emile Mugniery, Catherine Benoist-Lasselin, Martin Biosse Duplan, Arnold Munnich, Laurence Legeai Mallet (France)

OP-44 CHIARI I MALFORMATION AND SYRINGOMYELIA IN 230 CHILDREN: CLINICAL OUTCOME AND RESULTS OF SURGERY, FOCUSING ESPECIALLY ON RISK BECOMING SYMPTOMATIC AND OF POSTOPERATIVE CRANIOVERTEBRAL INSTABILITY

186 Marika Furlanetto, Veronica Saletti, Luisa Chiapparini, Sergio Visintini, Maria

Giovanna Pecoraro, Laura Valentini (Italy)

OP-45 CHIARI I MALFORMATION: OUR EXPERIENCE AND OUR CONSIDERATIONS IN A SERIES OF 102 PATIENTS CONSECUTIVELY TREATED BETWEEN 1995 AND 2011

226 Carmine Mottolese, Alexandru Szathmari, Anne-Claire Ricci-Franchi, Marc Hermier, Timothée Jacquesson, Pierre-Aurelien Beuriat, Cristophe Rousselle

France)

OP-46a CLINICAL & RADIOLOGICAL PROGRESSION OF PAEDIATRIC CHIARI I MALFORMATION: 10 YEAR OUT-PATIENT FOLLOW-UP REVIEW

254 Marcelo Volpon Santos, Desiderio Rodrigues, Guirish Solanki (United Kingdom)

OP-46b LATERALITY OF CHIARI I HINDBRAIN HERNIA 255 Marcelo Volpon Santos, Guirish Solanki (United Kingdom)

OP-47 REVIEW OF IMAGING AND FOLLOW UP OF ISOLATED SYRINGOMYELIA IN A PAEDIATRIC POPULATION

204 Farouk Olubajo, Ahilan Kailaya-Vasan, Robin Joseph, Daniel Connolly, Sinha Saurabh (United Kingdom)

OP-48 SECONDARY NEURONAL DAMAGE AND ASSOCIATED HYDROCEPHALUS IN A DEVELOPMENTAL MODEL OF MENINGOMYELOCELE (MMC) IN RAT FETUSES

220 Liana Beni-Adani, Nalin Gupta, Diana Farmer (Israel & USA)

OP-49 CRANIAL NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS CLUSTER AT PARTICULAR ANATOMICAL LOCI 146 Samantha Grahame, Dominic Thompson (United Kingdom)

OP-50 CURRARINO’S TRIAD AND SPINAL DYSRAPHISM: COMBINED DE-TETHERING AND RESECTION OF THE PRESACRAL LESION

165 Martin Tisdall, Jamie Phillips, Jessica Ternier, Agostino Pierro, Dominic Thompson

(United Kingdom)

OP-51 TREATMENT OF DIASTEMATOMYELIA IN CHILDREN. WE REPORT OUR SURGICAL EXPERIENCE IN THE TREATMENT OF 30 CHILDREN WITH DIASTEMATOMYELIA

229 Alexandru Szathmari, Pierre-Aurelien Beuriat, Anne-Claire Ricci-Franchi,

Timothée Jacquesson, Cristophe Rouselle, Carmine Mottolese (France)

OP-52 RETETHERING OF MYELOLIPOMAS: DIAGNOSIS, SURGERY, AND OUTCOME 022 Matthieu Vinchon, Timothée de Saint-Denis, Marc Baroncini, Rémi Besson (France)

OP-53 LIMITATIONS AND OUTCOME OF SPINAL LIPOMA SURGERY 265 J. Krauß, C. Schropp, N. Sörensen, T. Schweitzer (Germany)

OP-54 EXTENDED SPINAL EXPLORATION DURING PRIMARY REPAIR OF MYELOMENINGOCELE: A PROSPECTIVE STUDY

106 Francisco J. Salomão, Antonio Bellas, Tatiana Protzenko (Brazil)



Hall A

16:00-16:55 SESSION 8b: DYSRAPHIA - CRANIO-SPINAL MALFORMATIONS

Moderators: Sergio Cavalheiro (Brazil), Jürgen Krauß (Germany)

SP-19 CHIARI II MALFORMATION- A CORRELATION BETWEEN ANATOMICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND CLINICAL SYMPTOMS AND OUTCOMES

222 Kieron Sweeney, Darach Crimmins, John Caird, Tafiq Sattar, David Allcutt (Ireland)

SP-20 RATES OF INFECTION WITH RESPECT TO TIMING OF MYELOMENINGOCELE CLOSURE IN THE NEWBORN

267 Colum P. Nolan, John Caird, David Allcutt, M.T. Sattar, Darach Crimmins (Ireland)

SP-21 THE EFFECT OF SURGICAL TIMING ON MORBIDITY IN NEONATAL MYELOMENINGOCELE 221 Hakan Karabagli, Volkan Etus (Turkey)

SP-22 WHAT DID WE LEARN FROM OUR PATIENTS 271 Horn František, Dúbravová Dana, Fuňáková Miroslava, Šabová Lucia, Sýkora

Pavol, Kolníková Miroslava, Bartoň Peter, Drdúlová Terézia, Bartsch Oliver (Slovakia & Germany)

SP-23 THE FILUM TERMINALE: A CADAVER STUDY OF ANATOMY, HISTOLOGY AND ELASTICITY 081 Philippe De Vloo, Raf Sciot, Johannes van Loon, Frank Van Calenbergh (Belgium)

FP-22 KYPHOSCOLIOSIS AS LATE CONSEQUENCE OF MYELOMENINGOCELE - FOUR CASES REPORT 184 Christian Ferreira, Luiz Gustavo Correia, Arlindo Netto, Maurus Holanda, Ronald

Lucena, Hamilton Matushita, Artur Rocha (Brazil)

FP-23 SPINAL DERMAL SINUSES AND DERMAL SINUS-LIKE STALKS: A RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS OF 14 CASES

080 Philippe De Vloo, Raf Sciot, Frank Van Calenbergh (Belgium)

FP-24 A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF HISTOPATHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF FILUM TERMINALE IN PATIENTS WITH TETHERED CORD SYNDROME AND IN NORMAL HUMAN FETUSES

029 Yusuf Izci, Cahit Kural, Ozkan Tehli, Ilker Solmaz, Onder Onguru, Engin Gonul (Turkey)

FP-25 TETHERED SPINAL CORD: A SERIE OF 33 OPERATED CASES IN RECIFE 241 Artur Da Cunha, Suzana Serra, Roda Carlos Dabdoub, Amanda Lopez (Brazil)

FP-26 MANAGEMENT OF SPINAL CSF LEAKAGE USING TRENDRENBURG POSITION IN REOPERATION FOR TETHERED CORD SYNDROME

181 Zabihyan Samira, Reza Shojaeian, Hamid Etemadrezaie, Nader Dadgar (Iran)

FP-27 THE FLEXIBLE-FIBER CO2 LASER IN THE RESECTION OF SPINAL LIPOMA 154 Yusuf Ersahin, Tuncer Turhan (Turkey)

Hall A

17:00-17:30 ESPN BUSINESS MEETING


DAY 3 | Thursday, May 3, 2012

Hall A

08:15-10:00 SESSION 9a: NEUROMONITORING

INTRODUCTION

Willem J.R. van Ouwerkerk (Netherlands)

KL-04 KEYNOTE LECTURE: THE POLYTRAUMATIZED CHILD WITH BRAIN INJURY Sebastiaan van As (South Africa)

Moderators: Graham Fieggen (South Africa), Hedy Folkersma (Netherlands)

IL-09 NEUROTRAUMA - CONCEPTS OF TREATMENT - INTRODUCTION TO NEUROMONITORING Graham Fieggen (South Africa)

IL-10 WHY A MULTIMODAL APPROACH IS ESSENTIAL Tony Figaji (South Africa)

IL-11 OPTIMAL CPP - THE CONCEPT OF AUTOREGULATION-GUIDED INDIVIDUALIZED CPP MANAGEMENT Martin Schuhmann (Germany)

OP-55 CONTINUOUS (REAL TIME) IMAGING OF THE BRAIN BY ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY: POTENTIAL TO IMPROVE MANAGEMENT AND OUTCOME OF HEAD INJURY AND HYDROCEPHALUS

273 Kim H. Manwaring, P.K. Manwaring, Ryan Halter (USA)

OP-56 ACUTE HYPERGLYCEMIA IS A RELIABLE OUTCOME PREDICTOR IN CHILDREN WITH SEVERE TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY

162 José Roberto Tude Melo, Federico Di Rocco, Christian Sainte-Rose, Michel Zerah,

Philippe Meyer (Brazil & France)

OP-57 INCIDENCE OF SEIZURES ON CONTINUOUS EEG ACUTELY FOLLOWING TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY IN CHILDREN

073 Michael Handler (USA)


Hall A

10:30-12:30 SESSION 9b: NEUROMONITORING

Moderators: Francesco Sala (Italy), Karl Kothbauer (Switzerland)

IL-12 CORTICAL AND SUB CORTICAL MAPPING Akiva Korn (Israel)

IL-13 EXTENDED TOPO-DIAGNOSTIC AND MONITORING/MAPPING OF CENTRAL REGION TUMORS IN YOUNG CHILDREN COMBINING TMS, fMRI, DTI AND ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY

177 Martin Schuhmann (Germany)

IL-14 BRAINSTEM MONITORING Francesco Sala (Italy)

IL-15 FUNCTIONAL MICROSURGERY IN NERVE SHEATH TUMORS Cordula Matthies (Germany)


IL-16 SPINAL CORD TUMORS MONITORING Karl Kothbauer (Switzerland)

IL-17 INTRA-OPERATIVE MONITORING IN SPINAL DYSRAPHIA-TETHERED CORD Eelco Wieger Hoving (Netherlands)

IL-18 PRECONDITIONING IN CHILDREN 123 Henricus Journee (Netherlands)

IL-19 EVIDENCE BASED ASPECTS OF ION - COST EFFECTIVENESS IN IONM Francesco Sala (Italy)

OP-58 MAPPING CEREBELLAR EFFERENT PATHWAYS WITH DIRECT ELECTRICAL STIMULATION 270 Carmine Mottolese, Alexandru Szathmari, Pierre Aurelien Beuriat, A. Sirigu, D.

Michel (France)

OP-59 NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY (NIRS) ANALYSIS OF CEREBRAL PERFUSION AND OXYGENATION DURING CRANIOSYNOSTOSIS SURGERY

145 Martina Messing-Jünger, Ehrenfried Schindler, Andreas Röhrig, Sergey Persits, Markus Martini (Germany)

OP-60 INTRAOPERATIVE MONITORING OF MOTOR-EVOKED POTENTIALS IN CHILDREN WITH SPINAL PATHOLOGIES

261 V. Tsitouras, C. Charalambidis, S. Sgouros (Greece)

SP-24 INTRAOPERATIVE NEUROPHYSIOLOGIC MONITORING (IOM) IS MANDATORY DURING DE-TETHERING CORD IN INFANTS: THE BESTA INSTITUTE IN MILAN EXPERIENCE

103 Roberto Cordella, Giovanni Broggi, Angelo Franzini, Laura Valentini (Italy)


Hall A

13:30-14:30 SATELLITE SESSION 2: TELEMETRIC ICP MONITORING IN PEDIATRIC NEUROSURGERY

Organized by RAUMEDIC

Moderator: Wolfgang Wagner (Germany)

TELEMETRIC ICP SENSOR IN A YOUNG PATIENT WITH SEVERE OVER-DRAINAGE Hans Christoph Ludwig (Germany)

ADVANTAGES OF TELEMETRIC ICP-MONITORING IN PEDIATRIC NEUROSURGERY WITH A NEW TELEMETRIC SYSTEM

Christoph A. Tschan (Germany)

RESULTS AND SURGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF TELEMETRIC ICP-MONITORING Sebastian Antes (Germany)

Hall A

14:30-15:10 SESSION 10: TRAUMA

Moderators: Federico di Rocco (France), Tony Figaji (South Africa)

OP-61 EPIDEMIOLOGICAL ASPECTS AND PROGNOSTIC FACTORS OF SEVERE HEAD TRAUMA IN CHILDREN

161 José Roberto Tude Melo, Federico Di Rocco, Christian Sainte-Rose, Philippe Meyer, Michel Zerah (Brazil & France)


OP-62a REVERSAL OF BRAIN HERNIATION IN CHILDREN BY DURAL FENESTRATIONS 045 Joseph N. Guilburd, Anatoli Rakier (Israel)

OP-62b DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY BY MULTIPLE DURAL FENESTRATIONS (MDF) 069 Joseph N. Guilburd, Anatoli Rakier (Israel)

OP-63a NEUROSURGERY FOR CUTTING WEAPON CRANIAL TRAUMA IN PEDIATRICS: CULTURAL ASPECTS AND BEHAVIOR OR INAPPROPRIATE SOCIAL OUTCOME? CASE STUDY IN A BRAZILIAN HOSPITAL

090 Tiago de Paiva Cavalcante, Igor Gusmão Campana, João Matheus Dantas

Almeida, Lucas Rosemberg Pellegrino Jorge Alencar, Bruno da Fonseca Noronha,

Bruno Leite Pondé da Luz, Siegfried Pimenta Kuehnitzsch, Márcio Cesar de Melo Brandão, Tiago Alves de Araujo Junior, Carolina Ladeia Cirne, George Santos dos

Passos, Anselmo Alves Boa Sorte Junior, Guilherme Garcia, Juliano Baptista Correa (Brazil)

OP-63b HOOF KICK PEDIATRIC TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY: BRAZILIAN NEUROCHIRURGIC EXPERIENCE IN 09 CASES

093 Tiago de Paiva Cavalcante, Lucas Rosemberg Pellegrino Jorge Alencar, Marcos

Vinícius Oliveira Marques, João Matheus Dantas Almeida, Beatriz Carneiro Gondim Silva, Siegfried Pimenta Kuehnitzsch, Márcio Cesar de Melo Brandão,

Tiago Alves de Araujo Junior, Carolina Ladeia Cirne, George Santos dos Passos, Anselmo Alves Boa Sorte Junior, Guilherme Garcia, Juliano Baptista Correa (Brazil)

SP-25 VENTRICULOMEGALY AND GROWING CAVA SEPTI PELLUCIDI AFTER SEVERE HEAD TRAUMA: TO DO SHUNT OR NOT?

075 Jin-Myung Jung, Kyung Bum Park, Dong Ho Kang (Korea)

OP-64 SPINAL CORD TRAUMA IN CHILDREN: CLINICAL FEATURES 048 Ricardo Gepp, Marco Quiroga (Brazil)

15:10 FREE AFTERNOON


DAY 4 | Friday, May 4, 2012

Hall A

08:00-10:00 SESSION 11: CENTRALIZATION IN PEDIATRIC NEUROSURGERY

Joint Session of the ESPN, the Brazilian, Japanese & Korean PNS and the SIOP

Moderators: W. Peter Vandertop (Netherlands), Paul Chumas (United Kingdom)

KL-05 KEYNOTE LECTURE: CENTRALIZATION OF PEDIATRIC ONCOLOGY IN ONE CENTER IN THE NETHERLANDS

Rob Pieters (Netherlands)

IL-20 CENTRALIZATION IN PEDIATRIC NEUROSURGERY: CONSEQUENCES OF CENTRALIZING NEURO-ONCOLOGY FOR PEDIATRIC NEUROSURGERY IN THE NETHERLANDS

Erik van Lindert (Netherlands)

IL-21 CENTRALIZATION IN PEDIATRIC NEUROSURGERY: CURRENT STATE AND PROSPECTS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM

Paul Chumas (United Kingdom)

IL-22 CENTRALIZATION IN PEDIATRIC NEUROSURGERY IN A SMALL COUNTRY LIKE SWITZERLAND Karl Kothbauer (Switzerland)

IL-23 CENTRALIZATION IN PEDIATRIC NEUROSURGERY AND SUBSPECIALTIES IN FRANCE Matthieu Vinchon (France)

IL-24 CENTRALIZATION IN PEDIATRIC NEUROSURGERY AND SUBSPECIALTIES IN GERMANY Martina Messing-Jünger (Germany)

SP-26 CENTRALISATION IN PEDIATRIC NEUROONCOLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY IN POLAND 236 Danuta Perek, Marcin Roszkowski, Marek Mandera (Poland)

SP-27 CENTRALIZATION OF EPILEPSY SURGERY IN BRAZIL 140 Helio R. Machado, Ricardo S. Oliveira, Marcelo M. Volpon, Vera C. Terra, Americo

C. Sakamoto (Brazil)

BRAZILIAN, JAPANESE & KOREAN PRESENTATIONS

PANEL DISCUSSION


Hall A

10:30-12:00 SESSION 12: PERIPHERAL NERVE SURGERY

Moderators: Willem J.R. van Ouwerkerk (Netherlands), Ferry van Nie (Netherlands)

KL-06 KEYNOTE LECTURE: OBSTETRIC BRACHIAL PLEXUS LESIONS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY RECONSTRUCTIVE TECHNIQUES

Michael Becker (Germany)

IL-25 TECHNIQUES TO IMPROVE RESULTS IN NERVE RECONSTRUCTION Willem Pondaag (Netherlands)

IL-26 HOW TO START AN OBSTETRIC BRACHIAL PLEXUS CLINIC John McGillicuddy (USA)


IL-27 ORTHOPEDIC ASPECTS OF OBSTETRIC BRACHIAL PLEXUS LESIONS Hans van der Sluijs (Netherlands)

IL-28 PERIPHERAL NERVE TUMORS Götz Penkert (Germany)

OP-65 TRAUMATIC UPPER EXTREMITY NERVE LESIONS IN CHILDREN - MANAGEMENT AND RESULTS 174 Martin U. Schuhmann, Christoph Nagel, Florian H. Ebner, Marcos S. Tatagiba

(Germany)

Hall B

10:30-11:30 SESSION 13: SPINAL

Moderators: Michel Zerah (France), Martina Messing-Jünger (Germany)

OP-66 CRANIOVERTEBRAL JUNCTION STABILISATION IN CHILDREN LESS THAN 5 YEARS OF AGE - DEVELOPING A TREATMENT ALGORITHM

077 Dominic Thompson, Vivien Elwell, Nik Haliasos, Tomy Elias (United Kingdom)

OP-67 THE USE OF PARIETAL CALVARIAL BONE GRAFT FOR OCCIPITO-CERVICAL FUSION IN PATIENTS WITH MUCOPOLYSACCHARIDOSIS

034 Chris Parks, Richard Cowie (United Kingdom)

OP-68 TRANSORAL APPROACH IN CHILDREN WITH NON-TRAUMATIC PATHOLOGIES OF THE CRANIOCERVICAL JUNCTION

137 Agnieszka Zakrzewska, Paweł Kowalczyk, Marcin Roszkowski (Poland)

OP-69 MORPHOMETRIC CHARACTERIZATION OF THE CERVICAL SPINE AND SPINAL CORD IN CHILDREN WITH MPS IVA (MORQUIO-BRAILSFORD) DISEASE

256 Marcelo Volpon Santos, Giovanna Paternoster, William Lo, Chris Hendriksz,

Guirish Solanki (United Kingdom)

OP-70 CORRECTION OF KYPHOTIC LUMBAR DEFORMITIES ASSOCIATED WITH SPINA BIFIDA BY BILATERAL VERTICAL EXPANDABLE TITANIUM RIB (VEPTR) DISTRACTION - EARLY RESULTS

158 Philip Kunkel, Ralf Stuecker (Germany)

OP-71 KYPHECTOMY IN MYELOMENINGOCELE CHILDREN: SURGICAL TECHNIQUE, RISK ANALYSIS AND KYPHOSIS IMPROVEMENT

046 Ricardo Gepp, Marco Quiroga, Cicero Gomes, Hugo Araujo (Brazil)

OP-72 ROTATORY ATLANTOAXIAL SUBLUXATIONS IN CHILDREN: A REVIEW OF 12 CASES 131 Sandip Chatterjee (India)

SP-28 SYMPTOMATIC THORACIC DISC HERNIATION OR TIGHT FILUM? 212 Erwin Cornips, Mariel Ter Laak-Poort, Biene Weber, Hans Vles (Netherlands)

Hall B

11:30-12:30 SESSION 14a: ONCOLOGY

Joint Session of the ESPN and the SIOP

Moderators: Conor Mallucci (United Kingdom), Laszlo Bognar (Hungary)

OP-73 THE LIVERPOOL CAUSALITY COMPLICATIONS ASSESSMENT TOOL: HOW TO IMPROVE RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY FOR POSTERIOR FOSSA TUMOUR SURGERY OUTCOMES

064 Benedetta Pettorini, Ram Kumar, Barry Pizer, Dawn Williams, Conor Mallucci

(United Kingdom)


OP-74 TEN YEARS OF PAEDIATRIC POSTERIOR FOSSA TUMOURS, THE LEEDS EXPERIENCE 251 Mili Trivedi, Roddy O'Kane, Sue Picton, Martin Elliott, Darrach Crimmins, Atul

Tyagi, Paul Chumas, John Goodden (United Kingdom)

OP-75 POSTERIOR FOSSA TUMOUR SURGERY AND PERIOPERATIVE COURSE - A SINGLE INSTITUTION EXPERIENCE

026 Francis Ugwu, Ian Kamaly-Asl, Vivek Josan (United Kingdom)

OP-76 THE SURGICAL CHALLENGE IN CHILDHOOD CEREBELLOPONTINE ANGLE (CPA) TUMORS: THE UCSC EXPERIENCE

041 Corrado Lucantoni, Massimo Caldarelli, Gianpiero Tamburrini, Luca Massimi,

Giovanna Paternoster, Gianluca Trevisi, Concezio Di Rocco (Italy)

OP-77 DIFFERENCES IN OUTCOME AFTER RESECTION OF WHO GRADE I AND GRADE II CEREBELLAR ASTROCYTOMAS IN CHILDREN

161 Laszlo Bognar, Laszlo Szegedi, Laszlo Novak, Balazs Markia (Hungary)

OP-78 RISK CLASSIFICATION TO DEFINE MEDULOBLASTOMA CHILDREN TREATMENT 239 Valeria Muoio, Paulo Napoli, Fabio Godinho, Annick Beaugrand, Priscilla Meirelles,

Renato Melaragno, Osmar Moraes, Sidnei Epelman (Brazil)

OP-79 CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOURS IN INFANTS AND EARLY CHILDHOOD 247 Mili Trivedi, Roddy O'Kane, Sue Picton, Martin Elliott, Darach Crimmins, Atul

Tyagi, Paul Chumas, John Goodden (United Kingdom)

OP-80 SURGERY FOR INTRACRANIAL TUMORS IN CHILDREN UNDER 3 YEARS OF AGE 240 Jorge W.J. Bizzi, André Bedin (Brazil)


Hall A

13:30-14:30 SATELLITE SESSION 3

Organized by BRAINLAB

Hall A

14:30-16:00 SESSION 14b: ONCOLOGY


Moderators: José Hinojosa (Spain), Guirish Solanki (United Kingdom)

KL-07 KEYNOTE LECTURE: NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN THE SYNERGY BETWEEN ONCOLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY: THE ONCOLOGIST’S PERSPECTIVE

Barry Pizer (United Kingdom)

KL-08 KEYNOTE LECTURE: NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN THE SYNERGY BETWEEN ONCOLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY: THE NEUROSURGEON’S PERSPECTIVE Christian Sainte-Rose (France)

OP-81 MANAGEMENT OF CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA FOLLOWING CCLG GUIDELINES 065 Conor Mallucci, Barry Pizer, Mohammed Didi, Jo Blair, Swathi Upadrasta, Arul

Doss, Shivaram Avula, Benedetta Pettorini (United Kingdom)


OP-82 RESULTS OF A NEW THERAPEUTIC STRATEGY IN THE MANAGMENT OF CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA IN CHILDHOOD. A PROSPECTIVE STUDY OF 66 CASES

259 Stephanie Puget, Thomas Blauwblomme, Christian Sainte-Rose, E. Elowe-Gruau,

Claire Alapetite, Nathalie Boddaert, Pascale Varlet, Michel Zerah, Federico Di

Rocco, Vincent Couloignier, Stephane Gaillard (France)

OP-83 IMPACT OF CANONICAL WNT PATHWAY ACTIVATION IN THE PATHOGENESIS AND PROGNOSIS OF ADAMANTINOMATOUS CRANIOPHARYNGIOMAS

056 Carlos Eduardo Jucá, Hélio Machado, Margaret Castro, Leandro Colli, Beatriz

Paixão, Fabiano Saggioro, Renata Jucá, Ricardo Oliveira, Carlos Eduardo

Martinelli, Sonir Antonini, Ayrton Moreira (Brazil)

OP-84 LONG TERM (1-, 5- AND 10-YEAR) SURVIVAL OF PAEDIATRIC CNS TUMOURS IN THE UK 120 Ryan Mathew, Roddy O'Kane, Roger Parslow, Charles Stiller, Tom Kenny, Paul

Chumas (United Kingdom)

OP-85 LONG-TERM OUTCOME AFTER TREATMENT OF INTRACRANIAL PNETS IN CHILDREN 094 Radek Frič, Tryggve Lundar, Bernt J. Due-Tønnessen, Arild Egge (Norway)

OP-86 DILEMMAS IN MANAGEMENT OF ATYPICAL TERATOID/RHABDOID TUMORS OF CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM

192 Essam Al Shail, Anwar Ul Haq, Amani Al Kofide, Hindi Al Hindi, Yasser Khafaga

(Saudi Arabia)

FP-28 AT/RT OUR EXPERIENCE WITH 10 PEADIATRIC CASES 219 Alexandru Szathmari, Anne-Claire Ricci-Franchi, Cristophe Rousselle, Anne

Jouvet, Didier Frappaz, Cecille Conter, Timothée Jacquesson, Carmine Mottolese (France)

FP-29 IMMUNOHISTOCHEMICAL EXPRESSION OF CELL CYCLE REGULATORS IN PEDIATRIC EMBRYONAL BRAIN TUMORS

010 George Alexiou, Maria Moschovi, Kalliopi Stefanaki, George Sfakianos, Neofytos Prodromou (Greece)

FP-30 BRAINSTEM GANGLIOGLIOMAS IN CHILDREN. OUR EXPERIENCE CONCERNING SIX CASES OPERATED

227 Carmine Mottolese, Alexandru Szathmari, Anne-Claire Ricci-Franchi, Timothée

Jacquesson, Didier Frappaz, Cecille Conter, Anne Jouvet, Pierre-Aurelien Beuriat, Christian Carrie (France)

FP-31 GLIOBLASTOMA MULTIFORME IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS: EXPERIENCE IN 24 CASES AND LITERATURE REVIEW

242 Valeria Muoio, Osmar Moraes, Paulo Napoli, Ligia Alda Terzian, Fabio Godinho,

Annick Beaugrand, Priscilla Meirelles, Renato Melaragno, Sergio Suzuki, Sidnei Epelman (Brazil)

FP-32 INTRAMEDULLARY TUMORS IN CHILDREN 047 Ricardo Gepp, Jose Couto, Maria Silva (Brazil)

FP-33 BRAINSTEM TUMORS IN CHILBREN AND ADOLESCENTS. INSTITUTIONAL EXPERIENCE IN 30 YEARS

038 Magda Garzón, Gemma García, Antonio Guillén, Marionna Suñol, Jaume Mora,

Ofelia Cruz (Spain)



Hall A

16:30-17:20 SESSION 14c: ONCOLOGY


Moderators: Matthieu Vinchon (France), Marie-Lise van Veelen (Netherlands)

OP-87 IDENTIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF GLUCOSE RESPONSIVE NETWORKS IN HIGH GRADE PAEDIATRIC AND ADULT GLIOMA CELL LINES

246 Priyank Sinha, Paul Chumas, Jane Levesley, L.P. Steele, Sean Lawler (United Kingdom)

OP-88 PEDIATRIC BRAINSTEM GLIOMA BIOPSIES IN HELSINKI 202 Atte Karppinen, Jarno Satopää, Minna Oinas, Sanna Kivivuori, Juha Hernesniemi

(Finland)

OP-89 DIFFUSION TENSOR TRACTOGRAPHY IN PEDIATRIC OPTIC PATHWAY GLIOMA 210 Raphael Guzman, Robert Lober, Samuel Cheshier, Michael Edwards, Kristen Yeom

(USA)

SP-29 SURGICAL PATHWAY AND MANAGEMENT OF PINEAL REGION TUMOURS IN CHILDREN 062 Benedetta Pettorini, Rafid Al-Mahfoudh, Javad Yousaf, Barry Pizer, Mike

Jenkinson, Conor Mallucci (United Kingdom)

SP-30 PAEDIATRIC AND YOUNG ADULTHOOD PITUITARY ADENOMAS 063 Vassilis Tsitouras, Conor Mallucci, Benedetta Pettorini, Greg Fellows, Jo Blair,

Mohammed Didi, Christina Daousi, Caroline Steele, Mohsen Javadpour, Ajay

Sinha (United Kingdom)

SP-31 OPTICOHYPOTHALAMIC GLIOMAS IN CHIDREN: RESULTS OF SURGICAL TREATMENT 188 Laura Valentini, Bianca Pollo, Marika Furlanetto, Vittoria Nazzi, Angelo Franzini,

Carlo Lazzaro Solero, Maura Massimino (Italy)

SP-32 MANAGEMENT OF SUBEPENDYMAL GIANT CELL ASTROCYTOMA IN CHILDREN: EXPERIENCE OF ONE CENTER

086 Marek Mandera, Wojciech Szopa (Poland)

SP-33 INTRAVENTRICULAR LESIONS IN TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS COMPLEX: A POSSIBLE ASSOCIATION WITH THE CAUDATE NUCLEUS

003 Joel S. Katz, Sarah Milla, Graham Wiggins, Orrin Devinsky, Howard L. Weiner,

Jonathan Roth (USA)

19:00 DEPARTURE FOR DINNER VENUE


DAY 5 | Saturday, May 5, 2012

Hall A

08:00-10:00 SYMPOSIUM a: NEUROMODULATION

Moderators: Jules Becher (Netherlands), Hans Eder (Austria)

IL-29 INTRODUCTION: MOVEMENT DISORDERS AND TREATMENT OPTIONS Jules Becher (Netherlands)

IL-30 BRAIN IMAGING IN PEDIATRIC MOVEMENT DISORDERS Jeroen Vermeulen (Netherlands)

IL-31 MOVEMENT DISORDERS IN INHERITED WHITE MATTER DISEASES Nicole Wolf (Netherlands)

KL-09 KEYNOTE LECTURE: DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION IN MOVEMENT DISORDERS IN CHILDREN: THE MONTPELLIER EXPERIENCE

Thomas Roujeau (France)

OP-90 DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION (DBS) OF GLOBUS PALLIDUS INTERNUS (GPI) FOR THE TREATMENT OF SECONDARY DYSTONIAS IN CHILDREN. PRELIMINARY RESULTS IN FIVE PATIENTS

028 Flavio Giordano, Michele Cavallo, Luigi Piccinini, Manuela Casarano, Roberta

Battini, Michele Parolin, Francesco Zellini, Enzo Guerrini, Lorenzo Genitori (Italy)

OP-91 TREATMENT OF CHILDREN WITH SEVERE SELF AND HERETICAL AGRESSIVE BEHAVIOUR BY STEREOTATIC LIMBIC OPERATIONS

277 Silvio Machado, A. Malheiros (Brazil)

OP-92 DBS IN CRITICAL CARE CONDITIONS 281 R. Cordella, G. Messina, C. Marras, M. Rizzi, I. Dones, A. Franzini (Italy)


Hall A

10:30-12:45 SYMPOSIUM b: NEUROMODULATION

Moderators: Thomas Roujeau (France), Jeroen Vermeulen (Netherlands)

IL-32 VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION IN CHILDREN WITH INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY 016 Hans Eder (Austria)

IL-33 PERONEAL NERVE STIMULATION IN HEMI-PARETIC PATIENTS Jens Haase (Denmark)

IL-34 INTRATHECAL BACLOFEN THERAPY, RESULTS AND FUTURE RESEARCH Laura de Bonouvrie (Netherlands)

IL-35 PERCUTANEOUS RHIZOTOMY, INDICATIONS AND RESULTS Hans J.S. Vles (Netherlands)

OP-93 MINIMAL INVASIVE SELECTIVE DORSAL RHIZOTOMY FIRST EUROPEAN SERIES 250 Hannes Haberl, Julia Funk (Germany)

IL-36 SELECTIVE DORSAL PHIZOTOMY - 1O YEARS FOLLOW UP SERIES IN THE NETHERLANDS Jules Becher (Netherlands)


OP-94 NEUROTOMY OF MUSCULOCUTANEOUS, MEDIAN AND ULNAR NERVE FOR TREATMENT OF SPASTIC DYSTONY IN ADOLESCENT

189 George Georgoulis, Brinzeu Andrei, Patrick Mertens, Isabelle Poirot-Hodgkinson,

Marc Sindou (France)

OP-95 CLINICAL ASSESSMENT SCORE FOR CHILDREN WITH CP: A PRACTICAL TOOL TO EVALUATE OVERALL STATUS BEFORE AND AFTER NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURE FOR SPASTICITY - PRELIMINARY DATA

224 Liana Beni-Adani, Ron Lamdan, Yael Harel, Aviva Fatal, Liora Sagie, Hila Ben-Pazi

(Israel)

OP-96 HUMAN EMBRYONIC-DERIVED NEURAL STEM CELL TREATMENT PROMOTES MYELINATION AND FUNCTIONAL RECOVERY IN A MODEL OF CEREBRAL PALSY

067 Tenille Smith, Sahar Rosenblum, Kendrick Wang, Sam Lawrence, Nancy Wang, Raphael Guzman (USA)

Hall A

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DAY 1 | Tuesday, May 1, 2012 · Carlos Botella (Spain) ... Anne-Claire Ricci-Franchi, Pierre-Aurelien Beuriat, Timothée Jacquesson, Patrick Mertens (France) SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM Page