NASBS News and Upcoming Events

Vol 10 No 1 Archive

Annual Meeting - Saturday Schedule

8:00 am - 9:00 am

Skull Base Surgery Organization in the UK

9:00 am - 10:00 am

Skull Base Surgery for Malignancy

10:00 am - 11:00 am

Craniofacial Surgery

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Intraoperative Navigational System

Annual Meeting

8:00 am - 10:00 am

Contributed Papers/Oral Presentations

Session 1:

IMAGE FUSION IN 100 SKULL BASE, VASCULAR, AND MICROVASCULAR PROCEDURES: PRELIMINARY RESULTS

Amin B. Kassam, MD, FRCS(C)

INTRA-OPERATIVE MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING (IMR)-GUIDED MENINGIOMA RESECTION

Gregory J. Rubino, MD

INTRA-OPERATIVE MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING (IMR)-GUIDED PITUITARY TUMOR RESECTION

Gregory J. Rubino, MD

FRAMELESS CRANIAL NEURONAVIGATION; EXPERIENCE WITH THREE HUNDRED THIRTY TWO CONSECUTIVE CASES

George Samandouras, MD

COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY AND NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL MONITORING DURING CPA SURGERY

Muftah S. Eljamel, MBBCh, MD, FRCSI, FRCS(SN)

NEURONAVIGATION; DOES MR IMAGE SEQUENCE ALTER THE ACCURACY?

Muftah S. Eljamel, MBBCh, MD, FRCSI, FRCS(SN)

THE FAR-LATERAL CRANIOTOMY: NOVEL APPLICATION OF STEREOSCOPIC VIRTUAL REALITY

Jeffrey S. Henn, MD

INTEGRATION OF PRE- AND INTRAOPERATIVE MULTI-MODALITY DATA SETS IN THE SURGERY OF THE SKULL BASE: ENHANCED COMPUTER-ASSISTED-SURGERY (ECAS)-NEW QUALITY IN CAS?

Gero Strauss, MD

SKULL BASE SURGERY WITH A COMPACT INTRAOPERATIVE MRI SYSTEM

Michael Schulder, MD

Session 2:

EXTR-AXIAL CAVERNOUS HEMANGIOMA - A DISTINCT CLINICOPATHOLOGIC ENTITY?

Robert Strang, MD

TIMING OF RADIATION THERAPY AND ADJUVANT HYDROXYUREA IN THE MANAGEMENT OF AGGRESSIVE INTRACRANIAL MENINGIOMAS

Raul A. Rodas, DO

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY IN SKULL BASE SURGERY: A REVIEW OF FIFTY CASES

Atul Patel, MD

MULTIMODALITY NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL MONITORING DURING SKULL BASE SURGERY

Jeffrey R. Balzer, PhD

APPLICATION OF SKULL BASE SURGERY TECHNIQUES AND SOMATOSTATIN ANALOGUE IN SURGICAL TREATMENT OF PATIENTS WITH ACROMEGALY

Wieslaw Bonicki, MD

COMBINED UTILIZATION OF VARIOUS SKULL BASE APPROACHES AND THE GAMMA KNIFE FOR MULTI-MODALITY TREATMENT OF CRANIAL BASE TUMORS

Paul C. Francel, MD, PhD

PROTON THERAPY FOR SKULL BASE CHORDOMAS AND CHONDROSARCOMAS: EFFECT OF RESIDUAL DISEASE ON OUTCOME

Walter D. Johnson, MD

THE EXACT MORPHOMETRY OF THE SUPRAORBITAL FORAMEN AND THE FRONTAL SINUS AND CERTAIN ANATOMIC RELATIONS FOR SKULL BASE APPROACH: AN ANATOMICAL AND CEPHALOMETRIC STUDY

Funda Batay, MD

THE OCCIPITAL CONDYLE: A MICROANATOMICAL STUDY AND ITS SURGICAL RELEVANCE

Fernando Gonzalez, MD

10:00 am - 10:30 am

Break - Visit Exhibits and Poster Presentations

10:30 am - 11:15 am

Guest Lectures:

Surgical Errors in Skull Base Surgery: Prevention and Medicolegal Complications

11:15 am - 12:15 pm

Panel 1:

Controversies in Acoustic and Petrous Apex Tumors

• Chairmen: Jack M. Kartush, MD, Hee-Won Jung, MD, PhD

12:15 pm - 1:00 pm

Lunch - Visit Exhibits and Poster Presentations

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Panel 2:

Outcome Studies in Skull Base Surgery

• Chairmen: Thomas Origitano, MD, PhD, Glenn Neil-Dwyer, MD

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Panel 3:

Skull Base Trauma

• Chairmen: Paul Manson, MD, Dan M. Fliss, MD

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Break - Visit Exhibits and Poster Presentations

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Contributed Papers/Oral Presentations

Session 3:

STENTING OF CAROTID ARTERY STENOSIS USING SHAPE-MEMORY-ALLOY-RECOVERABLE-TECHNOLOGY STENTS

Kevin Yoo, MD

RECONSTRUCTIVE MANAGEMENT OF CRANIAL BASE DEFECTS FOLLOWING TUMOR ABLATION

David W. Chang, MD

PROBLEMS ON DURAL RESECTION AND PLASTY DURING EN BLOC RESECTION OF MAXILLARY MALIGNANT TUMORS WITH ANTERIOR AND MIDDLE SKULL BASE

Yasuhiko Ajimi, MD

FORESTIER=S DISEASE ASSOCIATED WITH A RETRO-ODONTOID MASS CAUSING CERVICOMEDULLARY COMPRESSION

Naresh P. Patel, MD

ORBITAL RECONSTRUCTION

Romauldo Rodrigues Froes, MD

MANAGEMENT OF ORBITOFACIAL FIBROUS DYSPLASIA

Ramesh Kumar Sharma, MCh

THE EFFICACY OF GORE-TEX VERSUS HYDROXYAPATITE AND BONE GRAFT IN RECONSTRUCTION OF ORBITAL FLOOR DEFECTS

Hesham Elmazar, MD

Session 4:

PARACLINOIDAL ANEURYSMS

Hakan Tuna, MD

SKULL BASE APPROACHES IN THE TREATMENT OF GIANT INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSMS

Howard A. Riina, MD

DURAL ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS OF THE SKULL BASE

Asim Mahmood, MD

CEREBELLOPONTINE ANGLE EPIDERMOIDS PRESENTING WITH CRANIAL NERVE HYPERACTIVE DYSFUNCTION: PATHOGENESIS AND LONG-TERM SURGICAL RESULTS OF 30 CASES

Hitoshi Kobata, MD

CRANIAL NEUROPATHIES: PITFALLS IN DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT

Michael B. Horowitz, MD

EFFECTS OF CLOSURE TECHNIQUES ON POST-OPERATIVE HEADACHE FROM SUBOCCIPITAL CRANIECTOMY.

Frank P.K. Hsu, MD, PhD

TENSION PNEUMOCEPHALUS

Paul J. Donald, MD

5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Wine and Cheese Reception