Guest Speakers
Lecturers
Programme
Saturday, 11th December
9:00 – 9:30 Registration
9:30 – 9:45 Welcome – Mr. Ramez Kirollos and Mr. Thomas Santarius
9:45 – 11:00 Prof. Guilherme Ribas – Anatomy of the ventricles and deep structures
11:00 – 11:15 Coffee Break and Exhibitions
11:15 – 12:15 Prof. Guilherme Ribas – Anatomy of sulci and gyri
12:15 – 13:00 Prof. Guilherme Ribas – Surgical anatomy of gyral and lobar lesions
13:00 – 14:30 Photograph + Lunch Break and Exhibitions
14:30 – 15:15 Prof. Guilherme Ribas – Surgical anatomy of ventricular and deep lesions
15:15 – 15:45 Prof. Guilherme Ribas – Surgical anatomy of the brain – case studies
15:45 – 16:00 Coffee Break and Exhibitions
16:00 – 17:15 Prof. Hugues Duffau – Impact of surgery on the natural history of low-grade gliomas (i.e. why to operate?)
17:15 – 18:30 Prof. Hugues Duffau – Impact of intraoperative mapping on functional and oncological outcomes (i.e. how to operate?)
18:30 – 18:45 Announcements
19:30 for 20:00 COURSE DINNER
Sunday, 12th December
9:00 – 9:30 Mr. Ramez Kirollos – Neurosurgical anatomy quiz – QUESTIONS
9:30 – 10:30 Prof. Hugues Duffau – Brain hodotopy: lessons from intraoperative mapping combined to functional imaging and anatomic dissection (i.e. the “real” talk about functional anatomy of the brain)
10:30 – 10:45 Coffee Break and Exhibitions
10:45 – 11:45 Prof. Hugues Duffau – Brain plasticity: a new concept to incorporate in surgery for low-grade glioma (i.e. the dynamics of cerebral networks)
11:45 – 12:45 Prof. Hugues Duffau – The specific case of surgery for insular low-grade gliomas (i.e. a new surgical indication thanks to the better
knowledge of dynamics functional anatomy)
12:45 – 13:00 Prof. Hugues Duffau – Questions and answers
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:00 Mr. Ramez Kirollos / Mr. Thomas Santarius – Neurosurgical anatomy
quiz – ANSWERS
15:00 – 15:15 Mr. Ramez Kirollos – Conclusion