09.03.2007 - Friday
10.03.2007 – Saturday
11.03.07 - Sunday
08.03.2007 - Thursday Volta ao topo
Course Pre-Congress - Stryker - Image Guided Surgical Techniques
14h00 - 18h00 Coordenação: Luiz Roberto Aguiar (Brasil)

- Image guided surgery and computer-assisted surgery
- Physical and mathematical principles
- Image acquisition and processing
- Anatomical considerations
- Fundamentals of data register
- Technology of surgical navigation
- Target determination and brain shifting

- Technical application - Head
Gliomas
• Meningiomas
• Posterior fossa tumors
• Transnasal pituitary approach
• Vascular malformations
• Neuroendoscopy
• Pain and functional neurosurgery

- Technical application - Spine
• Image guided spine surgery details
• Pedicle screws
• Deformities
• Tumors
• Odontoid approach
• Craniocervical lesions

Board:
Luiz Roberto Aguiar (Professor of Neurosurgery) - Brazil
Munir Antônio Gariba (Physicist – Biomedical Engineering post PhD) - Brazil
João da Silva Dias (Electric engineer) - Brazil
Ricardo Munhoz da Rocha Guimarães (Neurosurgeon) - Brazil
Adriano Maeda (Neurosurgeon) - Brazil
Alexandre Novicki Francisco (Neurosurgeon) - Brazil
Carlos Alberto Mattozo (Neurosurgeon) - Brazil
09.03.2007 - Friday Volta ao topo
Conferences
08h00 - 08h19 Endoscopic approach to sellar and suprasellar tumors.
- Gail Rosseau (United States)
08h20 - 08h39 Neurosurgical treatment for trigeminal Neuralgia.
- Yves Keravel (France)
08h40 - 08h59 Treatment of ependymomas in pediatric patients .
- Maurice Choux (France)
09h00 - 09h19 Far lateral approach to the cranial base
- Carolina Martins (Brazil)
09h20 - 09h39 Surgical considerations in glomus tumor surgery
- Ricardo Ramina (Brazil)
09h40 - 09h59 Epilepsy surgery and temporal lobe tumors. How to manage.
- Eliseu Paglioli Neto (Brazil)
10h00 - 10h30 Break
10h30 - 10h49 Intracavernous aneurysms . Therapeutical considerations
- Felix Pahl (Brazil)
10h50 - 11h09 Surgical approach to lesions of the foramen magnum
- José Alberto Landeiro (Brazil)
11h10 - 11h29 Orbital meningiomas
- Antonio Carrizo (Argentina)
11h30 - 11h49 Management of cerebral metastasis
- Patrício Tagle (Chile)
12h00 – 13h50 - Simpósios
Symposium
Endoscopy applied to neurosurgical procedures
Theater Lupicinio Rodrigues
Coordination: Carlos Brusius (Brazil), Guillermo Molina (Argentina)
Secretary: Arlindo D'Ávila (Brazil)

• The Endoscopy in the Spinal Column -Marcos Masini (Brazil)
• Complex Hidrocephalus -Carlos Brusius (Brazil)
• Neurocisticercosis-Samuel Zymberg (Brazil)
• Intraventricular tumors and arachnoidal cysts-Guillermo Molina (Argentina)
• Transesphenoidal approach-Samuel Zymberg (Brazil)
• Extended transesphenoidal approach-Luiz Carlos de Alencastro (Brazil)
• Endoscopy- assisted Microsurgery-Silvio Machado (Brazil)
12h00 - 13h50 - Symposium - ORCIMED Alternatives of treatment of peripheral nerve diseases
Roow Antonio Casaccia
Coordination: Mariano Socolovsky (Argentina), Mario Siqueira (Brazil)

• Endoscopic surgery for carpal tunnel syndrome?
Leonardo Svarzbein (United States)
• Open surgery for carpal tunnel syndrome
Rómulo Melo (Chile)
• How to suture a nerve without interposing a graft ?
José Fernando Guedes (Brazil)
• How to suture a nerve with graft interposition?
Claudio Seibert (Brazil)
• Nerve suture techniques: neurorraphy with nylon stitches or fibrin glue?
Roberto Martins (Brazil).
• Facial reanimation without tongue lesion: Sawamura-Abe technique
Mariano Socolovsky (Argentina)
• What can we offer in 2007 for a patient with complete brachial plexus paralysis ?
Mario Siqueira (Brazil)

Conferences Theater Lupicinio Rodrigues
14h00 - 14h19 Which cerebrovascular lesions we send for endovascular treatment?
- Hildo de Azevedo Filho (Brazil)
14h20 - 14h39 Degenerative disease of the cervical spine. Treatment alternatives.
- Ricardo Botelho (Brazil)
14h40 - 14h59 Trans –sylvian trans limen insular approach to lesions in the mesial temporal lobe.
- Alvaro Campero (Argentina)
15h00 - 15h19 Carotid disease and incidental aneurysms
- Luis Lemme-Plaghos (Argentina)
15h20 - 15h39 Multimodal treatment of pituitary tumors
- Armando Basso (Argentine)
15h40 - 15h59 Intracranial tumours in patients under 2 years of age
- José Francisco Salomão (Brazil)
16h00 - 16h30 Break
16h30 - 16h49 Myelomeningocele and new neurological symptoms: Chiari,Syringomielia, Tethered spinal cord or shunt disfunction?
- Jorge Bizzi (Brazil)
16h50 - 17h09 Spine metastasis . Limits of surgical treatment.
- Mario Taricco (Brazil)
17h10 - 17h29 Conservative x surgical treatment of dorsolumbar trauma.
- Albert Brasil (Brazil)
17h30 - 17h49 Cranio-cervical meningiomas. Surgical alternatives
- Luis Alencar Borba (Brazil)
17h50 - 18h09 Physiopathological basis for the treatment of cerebrovascular vasospasm.
- Leonidas Quintana (Chile)
20h00 Opening Ceremony
21h00 Cocktail
10.03.2007 – Saturday Volta ao topo
Conferences
Theater Lupicinio Rodrigues
08h00 – 08h19 Management of meningiomas of the anterior visual pathways
- Gail Rosseau (United States)
08h20 - 08h39 Management of traumatic brain injury: monitoring and surgical decompression.
- Michael Hinojosa (Peru)
08h40 - 08h59 Management of optic gliomas
- Maurice Choux (France)
09h00 - 09h19 New technologies applied to neurosurgery.
- Amir Samii (Germany
09h20 - 09h39 Malignant gliomas:lessions of a casuistic
- Luis Renato Mello (Brazil)
09h40 - 09h59 Low grade gliomas. When to operate ?
- José Marcus Rotta (Brazil)
10h00 - 10h30 Break
10h30 - 10h49 Titanium cage fixation in degenerative cervical spine disease
- Rafael de la Riva Rohrmoser (Guatemala)
10h50 - 11h09 Intraventricular meningiomas . How to approach ?
- Paulo Henrique Pires de Aguiar (Brazil)
11h10 - 11h29 Neuropathic pain . What is it? How to treat?
- Carlos Telles Ribeiro (Brazil)
11h30 - 11h49 Radiosurgical treatment of AV malformations. When it is indicated ?
- Julio Antico (Argentina)
12h00 - 13h50 - Symposium SPINAL - Modern techniques in spinal degenerative disease
Theatre Lupicinio Rodrigues
Coordination: Marcelo Simoni Simões (Brazil)

• Spinal Degeneration
Osmar José Moraes (Brazil)
• Clinical significance of spinal degeneration
Márcio Vinhal de Carvalho (Brazil)
• Percutaneous procedures: indication and techniques
Eduardo Barreto (Brazil)
• Lumbar dynamic stabilization
Ricardo Ribeiro (Brazil)
• Discal arthroplasty – better than fixation? –
Carlos Henrique Ribeiro (Brazil)
• Minimally invasive spine fixation. New gold standard?
Daniel Santos (Brasil)
Symposium – Boston Scientific Microvascular and endovascular treatment of cerebrovascular diseases
Roow Antonio Casaccia
Coordination: Marco Antonio Stefani
Secretary: Marcio Francisco Lehmann (Brazil)

Non-ruptured cerebral AVM - When to operate?
-Atos Souza (Brasil)

Endovascular treatment of cerebral AVM - What’s the value of embolization?
- Ronie Piske (Brasil)

Non-ruptured cerebral aneurysms – Do I always operate?
-Ivan Chemale (Brasil)

Non-ruptured cerebral aneurysms - What’s my position for coiling ?
-Paulo Passos (Brasil)

Asymptomatic cervical carotid atheromatous diseases – Is there still a place for operation?
- Jair Raso (Brasil)

Asymptomatic cervical carotid atheromatous disease - Is it always worth doing angioplasty or stenting ?
- José Guilherme Caldas (Brasil)
Conferences Theater Lupicinio Rodrigues
14h00 - 14h19 Basilar bifurcation aneurysms
- Atos de Sousa (Brazil)
14h20 - 14h39 Extracranial and Intracranial endovascular bypass
- Pedro Lylyk (Argentine)
14h40 - 14h59 Functional surgery for tumors of eloquent areas of the brain
- Alejandra Rabadán (Argentina)
15h00 - 15h19 Revascularization techniques in the treatment of complex aneuryms: Indications and results.
- Helder Tedeschi (Brazil)
15h20 - 15h39 Intraoperative monitoring in the surgical treatment of CP angle tumours.
- Gustavo Carvalho (Brazil)
15h40 - 15h59 Hydrocephalus in infancy: How to treat-Third ventriculostomy or shunt?
- Benicio Oton de Lima (Brazil)
16h00 - 16h20 Break

16h20 - 16h39 Surgical treatment of neurocisticercosis.
- Benedicto Oscar Colli (Brazil)
16h40 - 16h59 Combined microsurgical and endovascular treatment modalities for complex intracranial aneurysms.
- Yoko Kato (Japan)
17h00 - 17h19 The venous system in brain tumour surgery.
- Tetsuo Kanno (Japan)
17h20 - 17h39 Surgical considerations is the treatment of acoustic neurinomas
- Paulo Niemeyer Soares Filho (Brazil)
17h39 - 17h59 Contribution of endovascular surgery in the treatment of acute subarachnoid hemorrhage
- Pedro Lylyk (Argentina)
18h00 Administrative Meeting
11.03.07 - Sunday Volta ao topo
Conferences
Theater Lupicinio Rodrigues
08h00 - 08h19 Surgical treatment of clivus lesions
- Amir Samii (Germany)
08h00 - 08h39 Current concepts in radiosurgical treatment of meningiomas
- Gail Rosseau (United States)
08h40 - 08h59 Transbasal interhemispheric approach for midline skull base lesions
- Ibrahim Sbeih ( Jordan )
09h00 - 09h19 Oligodendrogliomas in children
- Maurice Choux (France)

09h20 - 09h39 Surgical treatment of craniopharyngiomas
- Tetsuo Kanno (Japan)
09h40 - 09h59 Stereotactic radiosurgery in the treatment of cerebral metastasis
- Salomon Benabou (Brazil)
10h00 - 10h30 Break
10h30 - 10h49 Surgical technique: referencial points in cranial approaches
- Sebastião Gusmão (Brazil)
10h50 - 11h09 Fundamentals of excision and control of hemorrhage during AVM surgery.
- Yoko Kato (Japan)
11h10 - 11h29 Brain Stimulation and Parkinson’s disease.
- Yves Keravel (France)
11h30 - 11h49 Socio-economic problems for the USA neurosurgeons. How it might affect south-american surgical activities ?
- Fernando G. Dias (United States)