Scientific Programme


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      WFNS Section
      Neurosurgery Emergencies
      Co-Directors: Tanju Ucar, Isabelle Germano
    LECTURES
    14.00 - 14:20 Head trauma
    Tanju Uçar
    14:20 - 14:40 Brain tumors
    Isabelle Germano
    14:40 - 15:00 SAH and ICH
    Edjah Nduom
    15:00 - 15:20 Pediatrics
    Nejat Akalan
    DISCUSSIONS
    15:30 - 15:50 Head trauma
    Tanju Uçar
    15:50 - 16:00 Brain tumors
    Isabelle Germano
    16:00 - 16:20 SAH and ICH
    Edjah Nduom
    16:20 - 16:50 Pediatrics
    Nejat Akalan
    19:00 - 21:00 OPENING RECEPTION
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    08:30 - 08:50 Opening Ceremony
    08:30 - 08:40 Tanju Ucar
    08:40 - 08:45 Sukru Caglar
    08:45 - 08:50 Isabelle Germano
    SESSION 1 - INTRODUCTION - Tanju Ucar
    09:00 - 09:10 SPINE ANATOMY
    Burak Sade
    09:10 - 09:20 RADIOLOGY OF THE SPINE
    Utku Senol
    09:20 - 09:30 BIOMECHANICS
    Cuneyt Temiz
    SESSION 2 - CONGENITAL MALFORMATIONS OF THE SPINE - Emel Avcı
    09:30 - 09:35 Case Presentation:
    Interactive question about the case and receiving answers from the audience
    09:35 - 09:45 OPEN SPINAL DYSRAPHISMS
    Hakan Karabagli
    09:45 - 09:55 CLOSED SPINAL DYSRAPHISMS
    Gokmen Kahilogulları
    09:55 - 10:05 CHIARI MALFORMATION AND SYRINGOMYELIA
    Alp Ozgun Borcek
    10:05 - 10:15 LATE COMPLICATIONS OF THE OPEN SPINAL DYSRAPHISM
    Cagatay Onal
    10:15 - 10:25 Discussion and Questions
    10:25 - 10:45
    Coffee Break
    SESSION 3 - TRAUMA - Yusuf İzci
    10:45 - 10:50 Case Presentation:
    Interactive question about the case and receiving answers from the audience
    10:50 - 11:00 GENERAL APPROACH TO SPINE TRAUMA PATIENT (CLINICAL CLASSIFICATIONS - ASIA ETC)
    Yusuf İzci
    11:00 - 11:10 SCI PATHOPHYSIOLOGY (CLINICAL SYNDROMES ETC) 
    Hakan Emmez
    11:10 - 11:20 UPPER CERVICAL TRAUMA- RADIOLOGY AND CLASSIFICATION C0-C2
    Sukru Caglar
    11:20 - 11:30 UPPER CERVICAL TRAUMA - MANAGEMENT C0-C2
    Sukru Caglar
    11:30 - 11:45 LOWER CERVICAL TRAUMA - RADIOLOGY AND CLASSIFICATION 
    Özkan Ateş
    11.45 - 12:00 LOWER CERVICAL TRAUMA - MANAGEMENT
    Athanasios Spiliotopoulos
    12:00 - 12:10 Discussion and Questions
    SESSION 4 - TRAUMA - Hakan Emmez
    12:10 - 12:15 Case Presentation:
    Interactive question about the case and receiving answers from the audience
    12:15 - 12:25 THORACOLUMBAR TRAUMA (RADIOLOGY - CLASSIFICATION)
    Serdar Kahraman
    12:25 - 12:40 THORACOLUMBAR TRAUMA (CLINICAL FINDINGS - TREATMENT)
    Athanasios Spiliotopoulos
    12:40 - 12:50 SACROCOCCYGEAL TRAUMA (RADIOLOGY - CLASSIFICATION)
    Erkan Kaptanoglu
    12:50 - 13:00 SACROCOCCYGEAL TRAUMA (CLINICAL FINDINGS - TREATMENT)
    Erkan Kaptanoglu
    13:00 - 13:10 Discussion and Questions
    13:10 - 14:20
    Lunch
    SESSION 5 - DEGENERATIVE - Burak Sade
    14.20 - 14:25 Case Presentation:
    Interactive question about the case and receiving answers from the audience
    14.25 - 14:35 PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF DEGENERATIVE SPINE
    Kazım Yigitkanlı
    14.35 - 14:45 CRANIOVERTEBRAL JUNCTION DEGENERATIVE DISEASES
    Serdar Kahraman
    14.45 - 14:55 CERVICAL DISC DISEASE - CLINICAL FINDINGS AND DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS - RADIOLOGY
    Isabelle Germano
    14.55 - 15:05 CERVICAL DISC DISEASE - MANAGEMENT (CONSERVATIVE AND SURGICAL)
    Kazım Yigitkanlı
    15.05 - 15:20 THORACIC DISC DISEASE - CLINICAL FINDINGS AND DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS - RADIOLOGY - MANAGEMENT (CONSERVATIVE AND SURGICAL)
    Özkan Ateş
    15.20 - 15:30 Discussion and Questions
    SESSION 6 - DEGENERATIVE - Cengiz Çokluk
    15:30 - 15:35 Case Presentation:
    Interactive question about the case and receiving answers from the audience
    15:35 - 15:45 LUMBAR DISC DISEASE - CLINICAL FINDINGS AND DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS - RADIOLOGY
    Cuneyt Temiz
    15:45 - 16:00 LUMBAR DISC DISEASE - MANAGEMENT (CONSERVATIVE AND SURGICAL)
    Cengiz Cokluk
    16:00 - 16:15 CERVICAL SPINAL STENOSIS - (OPLL - SSM - MYELOPATHY ETC)
    Mehmet Zileli
    16:15 - 16:25 LUMBAR SPINAL STENOSIS
    Bülent Düz
    16:25 - 16:35 Discussion and Questions
    16:35 - 16:50
    Coffee Break
    16:50 - 18:20 Discussion Groups
    Hall 1 DUROPLASTY VS ONLY BONE RESECTION IN ARNOLD CHIARI TYPE 1
    Alp Ozgun Borcek - Melih Bozkurt
    Hall 2 ENDOSCOPIC VS MICROSCOPIC LUMBAR DISC SURGERY
    Şükrü Caglar - Serdar Kahraman
    Hall 3 RADICAL RESECTION VS CONSERVATIVE SURGICAL APPROACHES IN SPINAL METASTASIS
    Athanasios Spiliotopoulos - Edjah Nduom
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    SESSION 7 - DEGENERATIVE - Ali Kafadar
    08:30 - 08:35 Case Presentation:
    Interactive question about the case and receiving answers from the audience
    08:35 - 08:50 INFLAMMATORY DISORDERS OF THE SPINE
    Erdal Gilgil
    08:45 - 08:55 CONSERVATIVE MANAGEMENT (PRESURGICAL)
    Erdal Gilgil
    08:55 - 09:10 FAILED BACK SURGERY SYNDROME
    Ali Kafadar
    09:10 - 09:20 PAIN (NON SURGICAL TREATMENT - ALGOLOGICAL AND FUNCTIONAL)
    Tanju Ucar
    09:20 - 09:30 POST SURGICAL REHABILITATION
    Erdal Gilgil
    09:30 - 09:40 Discussion and Questions
    SESSION 8 - TUMORS - Gokmen Kahilogulları
    09:40 - 09:45 Case Presentation:
    Interactive question about the case and receiving answers from the audience
    09:45 - 09:55 EPIDEMIOLOGY AND CLASSIFICATION OF SPINAL TUMORS
    Isabelle Germano
    09:55 - 10:05 RADIOLOGY OF SPINAL TUMORS
    Utku Senol
    10:05 - 10:15 PRIMARY VERTEBRAL TUMORS
    Melih Bozkurt
    10:15 - 10:25 SECONDARY VERTEBRAL TUMORS - METASTASIS
    Erkan Kaptanoglu
    10:25 - 10:35 Discussion and Questions
    10:35 - 10:55
    Coffee Break
    SESSION 9 - TUMORS - Emel Avcı
    10:55 - 11:00 Case Presentation:
    Interactive question about the case and receiving answers from the audience
    11:00 - 11:10 INTRADURAL EXTRAMEDULLARY TUMORS
    Edjah Nduom
    11:10 - 11:20 INTRAMEDULLARY TUMORS
    Edjah Nduom
    11:20 - 11:30 SPECIFIC SPINAL INFECTIONS (TUBERCULOSIS - BRUCELLOSIS)
    Yusuf Izci
    11:30 - 11:40 POST SURGICAL - NONSPECIFIC - IATROGENIC - INFECTIONS
    Yusuf Izci
    11:40 - 11:50 OTHER SPINAL CORD PATHOLOGIES (DEMYELINISATION-TRANSVERSE MYELITIS-POLIO - GUILLAIN BARRE - VASCULAR PATHOLOGIES)
    Melih Bozkurt
    11:50 - 12:00 Discussion and Questions
    12:00 - 13:30
    Lunch
    13:30 - 15:00 WORKSHOP (Insturmentation Techniques)
    SESSION 10 - DEFORMITY - Cagatay Onal
    15:05 - 15:10 Case Presentation:
    Interactive question about the case and receiving answers from the audience
    15:10 - 15:20 BASIC CONCEPTS -1 (CLASSIFICATIONS - PARAMETERS)
    Kazım Yigitkanlı
    15:20 - 15:30 BASIC CONCEPTS - 2 (SCOLIOSIS - KYPHOSIS)
    Özkan Ateş
    15:30 - 15:45 SPONDYLOLISIS AND SPONDYLOLISTHESIS (DIAGNOSIS - CLASSIFICATION - MANAGEMENT - SURGERY INCLUDED)
    Athanasios Spiliotopoulos
    15:45 - 16:00 DEFORMITY SURGERY (SCOLIOSIS AND KYPHOSIS SURGERY ONLY)
    Cüneyt Temiz
    16:00 - 16:10 INTRAOPERATIVE NEUROMONITORISATION
    Cengiz Cokluk
    16:10 - 16:20 Discussion and Questions
    16:20 - 16:35
    Coffee Break
    16:40 - 18:10 Discussion Groups
    Hall 1 CERVICAL SPONDYLITIC MYELOPATHIES
    Kazım Yigitkanli - Erkan Kaptanoglu
    Hall 2 SURGICAL VS CONSERVATIVE MANAGEMENT OF THORACOLUMBAR FRACTURES
    Lukas Rasulic - Mehmet Zileli
    Hall 3 CONSERVATIVE VS SURGICAL MANAGEMENT OF TETHERED CORD SYNDROME
    Gökmen Kahilogullar - Ali Kafadar
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    SESSION 11 - PERIPHERAL NERVE - Alp Ozgun Borcek
    08:30 - 08:35 Case Presentation:
    Interactive question about the case and receiving answers from the audience
    08:35 - 08:45 PERIPHERAL NERVE ANATOMY
    Ali Kafadar
    08:45 - 08:55 PERIPHERAL NERVE PHYSIOLOGY AND ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY (EMG)
    Mehmet Zileli
    08:45 - 09:00 BRACHIAL PLEXUS
    Lukas Rasulic
    09:00 - 09:15 THORACIC OUTLET SYNDROME
    Lukas Rasulic
    09:15 - 09:25 Discussion and Questions
    SESSION 12 - PERIPHERAL NERVE - Bulent Duz
    09:25 - 09:30 Case Presentation:
    Interactive question about the case and receiving answers from the audience
    09:30 - 09:40 ENTRAPMENT SYNDROMES LOWER EXTREMITY
    Burak Sade
    09:40 - 09:50 ENTRAPMENT SYNDROMES UPPER EXTREMITY
    Hakan Emmez
    09:50 - 10:00 NERVE TRAUMA
    Alp Ozgun Borcek
    10:00 - 10:10 NERVE TUMORS
    Gokmen Kahilogullari
    10:10 - 10:20 NERVE SURGERY (ANASTOMOSIS)
    Lukas Rasulic
    10:20 - 10:30 Discussion and Questions
    10:30 - 10:50
    Coffee Break
    10:50 - 12:30 Midas - Rex High Speed Drill hands on course
    12:30 - 13:30
    Lunch
    13:30 - 18:00 SOCIAL TOUR-CITY TOUR
    21:00 - 23:00 Friendship Night
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    SESSION 13 - Melih Bozkurt

    08:30 - 08:35

    Case Presentation:
    Interactive question about the case and receiving answers from the audience
    08:35 - 08:50 PATIENT EVAULATION IN SPINE SURGERY
    Emel Avcı
    08:50 - 09:05 RED FLAGS IN SPINAL PATHOLOGIES
    Mehmet Zileli
    09:05 - 09:20 AGING SPINE
    Mehmet Zileli
    09:20 - 09:35 SURGICAL POSITIONS IN SPINAL PATHOLOGIES
    Cuneyt Temiz

    09:35 - 09:45

    Discussion and Questions

    09:45 - 10:00
    Coffee Break
    SESSION 14 - STUDENT LECTURES - Eleni Tsianaka
    10:00 - 10:10 Acute spinal shock
    Levent Aydın
    10:10 - 10:20 Thoracic outlet syndrome
    Osama Arım
    10:20 - 10:30 Cauda equina syndrome
    Rakesh Av
    10:30 - 10:40 Low back pain
    Noor-ul-Huda
    10:45 - 11:45 CLOSING CEREMONY