II Congress of Polish Skull Base Surgery Society

II Congress of Polish Skull Base Surgery Society
Falenty, 22-24.11.2002

ATTENTION - PSBSS Members - Business Meeting will be held on 23.11.2002, 14:10, Room A.

22.11.2002

15:00 - 15:30 Opening ceremony
Room A

15:30 - 17:30 Clinical and ethical issues in skull base surgery
Room A, Plenary session, P1

Chairmen: Paul J. Donald, Witold Szyfter, Tomasz Trojanowski

15:30 History of skull base surgery, organization of skull base surgery centers and professional associations - Tomasz Trojanowski, Neurosurgery Department, Lublin, Poland
15:45 Achievements and failures in skull base surgery - Paul J. Donald, Sacramento Medical Center, Sacramento, CA, USA
16:10 The most challenging conditions in skull base surgery - Donald C. Wright, GWU, Washington, DC, USA
16:35 Outcomes in skull bases malignancies- Giulio Cantu, Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Milano, Italy
16:55 Outcomes in benign tumors of the skull base - Robert Behr, Neurosurgery Department, Fulda, Germany
17:15 Ethical questions in major surgery - laic person perspective - Wojciech Bołoz, UKSW, Warsaw, Poland

17:30 - 18:00 Break

18:00 - 19:00 Chordoma and chondrosarcoma of skull base
Room A, Panel discussion, T1

Moderator: Donald C. Wright, GWU, Washington, DC, USA
Panelists:
Ossama Al-Mefty, UAMS Skull Base Center, Little Rock, USA
Paul J. Donald, Sacramento Medical Center, Sacramento, CA, USA
Kurt Laedrach, Maxillofacial Surgery Department, Inselspital Bern, Switzerland
Tomasz Trojanowski, Neurosurgery Department, Lublin, Poland

23-11-2002

08:15 - 08:45 Surgical techniques 1
Room A, Video session, V1

Chairman: Andrzej Kukwa

Ossama Al-Mefty, UAMS Skull Base Center, Little Rock, USA

09:00 - 11:30 Management of malignant neoplasms of skull base
Room A, Plenary session, P2

Chairmen: Giulio Cantu, Wiesław Gołąbek, Mirosław Ząbek

09:00 Oncological principles in skull base surgery - Paul J. Donald, Sacramento Medical Center Sacramento, CA, USA
09:30 Surgical treatment of temporal bone malignancies - Alexis Bozorg-Grayeli, Hopital Beaujon, Clichy, France
10:00 Surgical treatment of paranasal sinuses malignacies - Kurt Laedrach, Maxillofacial Surgery Department, Inselspital Bern, Switzerland
10:30 Reconstruction methods for large tissue defects after tumor resection - Giulio Cantu, Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Milano, Italy
11:00 Oncological management of skull base malignancies - Andrzej Kawecki, Cancer Center - M. Skłodowska-Curie Institute, Warsaw, Poland

11:30 - 12:20 Break

11:40 - 12:10 Surgical techniques 2
Room A, Video session, V2

Chairman: Andrzej Kukwa

Ossama Al-Mefty, UAMS Skull Base Center, Little Rock, USA

12:20 - 14:00 Neoplasms of paranasal sinuses
Room A, Free papers, R1

Chairmen: Stanisław Betlejewski, Hubert Wanyura

(see program in Polish for English titles - where available)

12:20 - 14:00 Non-neoplastic pathology in skull base surgery
Room B, Free papers, R2

Chairmen: Andrzej Marchel, Grzegorz Krzymański

(see program in Polish for English titles - where available)

14:00 - 15:30 Lunch break

14:10 - 15:00 Business meeting of Polish Society oSkull Base Surgery
Room A, W1

15:30 - 16:30 Neoplasms of paranasal sinsuses with invasion of the orbit
Room A, Panel discussion, T2

Moderator: Giulio Cantu, Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Milano, Italy
Panelists:
Paul J. Donald, Sacramento Medical Center, Sacramento, CA, USA
Kurt Laedrach, Maxillofacial Surgery Department, Inselspital Bern, Szwajcaria
Romuald Krajewski, Centrum Onkologii - Instytut im. M. Skłodowskiej-Curie, Warszawa

16:30 - 17:20 Break

16:40 - 17:10 Surgical techniques 3
Room A, Video session, V3

Chairman: Kazimierz Niemczyk

Robert Behr, Neurosurgery Department, Fulda, Germany

17:20 - 19:00 Neoplasms of cavernous sinus, sella and clivus area
Room A, Free papers, R3

Chairmen: Wiesław Bonicki, Włodzimierz Liebert, Jan Podgórski

(see program in Polish for English titles - where available)

17:20 - 19:00 Skull base surgery techniques in management of intracranial pathology
Room B, Free papers, R4

Chairmen: Wojciech Golusiński, Marek Zawirski

(see program in Polish for English titles - where available)

24-11-2002

08:15 - 08:45 Surgical techniques 4
Room A, Video session, V4

Chairman: Kazimierz Niemczyk

Jean-Marc Sterkers, Hopital Bachemont, Paris, France

09:00 - 10:30 Management of benign neoplasms of skull base
Room A, Plenary session, P3

Chairmen: Robert Behr, Andrzej Radek, Henryk Skarżyński

09:00 Contemporary goals and methods of surgical treatment of vestibular schwannomas - Robert Behr, Neurosurgery Department, Fulda, Germany
09:30 Skull base meningiomas - a road to victory - Ossama Al-Mefty, UAMS Skull Base Center, Little Rock, USA
10:00 Parasellar tumors - Donald C. Wright, GWU, Washington, DC, USA

10:30 - 11:20 Break

10:40 - 11:10 Surgical techniques 5
Room A, Video session, V5

Chairman: Andrzej Kukwa

Ossama Al-Mefty, UAMS Skull Base Center, Little Rock, USA

11:20 - 12:40 Cerebello-pontine angle tumors
Room A, Free papers, R5

Chairmen: Piotr Bażowski, Kazimierz Niemczyk

(see program in Polish for English titles - where available)

11:20 - 12:40 Neoplasms of middle and posterior skull base
Room B, Free papers, R6

Chairmen: Wiesław Gołąbek, Jan Ślósarek

(see program in Polish for English titles - where available)

11:20 - 12:00 Varia
Room C S1 Poster session

Chairmen: Stanisław Bień, Zbigniew Czernicki, Stanisław Starościak

(see program in Polish for English titles - where available)

12:40 Congres closes