WFNS-CNS

WFNS -CNS "Operative Techniques with the Masters" Symposium

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Special Pre-meeting "How I Do It" event at the Interim WFNS Meeting
September 13th, 2011-Recife, Brazil

Presided by: Prof. Peter Black (WFNS President) & Prof Marcus Rotta (President of the Neurosurgical Society of Brazil)
Moderated by: Prof. Saleem Abdulrauf (CNS Vice-President & Chair of the WFNS Neurosurgical Anatomy Committee)

Topics:


Vascular (morning session)
"How I do it": Clipping of an anterior communicating artery aneurysm
"How I do it": Clipping of a basilar apex aneurysm
"How I do it": High-Flow EC-IC bypass
"How I do it": Resection of a brainstem cavernous malformation
"How I do it": My techniques for the resection of an arteriovenous malformation

Tumors (afternoon session)
"How I do it": Microsurgical resection of a suprasellar tumor
"How I do it": Endoscopic resection of a pituitary/suprasellar tumor
"How I do it": Resection of petrovclival meningioma
"How I do it": The anterior petrosal approach
"How I do it": Resection of an acoustic schwannoma
"How I do it": Microsurgical resection of a third ventricular tumor
"How I do it": Resection of a spinal cord tumor

Senior Presenters:


Prof. – Jacques Brotchi (Belgium)
Prof. – Paolo Cappabianca (Italy)
Prof. – William Couldwell (USA)
Prof. – Atul Goel (India)
Prof. – Juha Hernesniemi (Finland)
Prof. – Takeshi Kawase (Japan)
Prof. – Basant Misra (India)
Prof. – Nelson Oyesiku (USA)
Prof. – Madjid Samii (Germany)
Prof. – Atos de Sousa (Brazil)
Prof. – Ugur Ture (Turkey)
Prof. – Jizong Zhao (China)

Special Luncheon Lecture:
Michelangelo’s Code
New Ideas Regarding the Hidden Anatomy in Michelangelo’s Paintings
By Prof. Alexandru Vlad Ciruea (Romania)

It is the pleasure of the WFNS & CNS to provide this symposium free of charge to all registrants of the WFNS interim meeting in Recife.