The 73rd Annual Meeting of the Japan Neurosurgical Society

Date	Friday, October 10, – Saturday, October 11, 2014
Venue	Grand Prince Hotel New Takanawa, International Convention Center Pamir
Room	Room F (MATSUBA, 2^nd Floor)

Program

Friday, October 10
13:30–14:50		Ⅰ. Historical review of Pediatric Neurosurgery
Chairperson	:	Osamu Sato
Chairperson	:	Modern Management of Hydrocephalus : from extrathecal to intrathecal CSF shunt Maurice Choux (WFNS, France)
Chairperson	:	Shizuo Oi
Chairperson	:	Chiari Type I malformation in children Concezio Di Rocco (International Neuroscience Institute, Germany)

14:50–16:40		Ⅱ. Epilepsy
Chairpersons	:	Tai-Tong Wong (National Yang Ming University, Taiwan) Paul Stainbok (University of British Columbia, Canada) Nobuhito Morota (National Center for Child Health and Development, Japan)
		Monitoring Hiroshi Otsubo (University of Toronto, Canada) Imaging Gianpiero Tamburrini (Catholic University, Italy) Palliative surgery Hidenori Sugano (Juntendo University, Japan) Radical surgery Kensuke Kawai (NTT Medical Center Tokyo, Japan)

16:40–18:30		Ⅲ. Tumors
Chairpersons	:	Wan Tew Seow (KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Singapore) Reizo Shirane (Miyagi Children’s Hospital, Japan) Mami Yamasaki (Takatsuki General Hospital, Japan)
		Craniopharyngiomas: Surgical issues Tai-Tong Wong (National Yang Ming University, Taiwan) Craniopharyngiomas: Long term results Paul Steinbok (University of British Columbia, Canada) Pediatric Ependymoma: How molecular genetic analyses are altering　therapeutic approaches James T. Rutka (University of Toronto, Canada) Posterior Fossa Ependymomas: Surgical Resection and Its Limitation Tadanori Tomita (Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, USA)

Saturday, October 11
8:00–9:50		Ⅳ. Spinal Lipoma
Chairpersons	:	Gianpiero Tamburrini (Catholic University, Italy) Ulrich-Wilhelm Thomale (Charité- Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany) Hiroaki Sakamoto (Osaka City General Hospital, Japan)
Chairpersons	:	Classification of spinal lipoma and other dysraphisms Wan Tew Seow (KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Singapore) Why and when I operate Dachling Pang (Kaiser Oakland Medical Center, USA) Why and when I do not operate Federico Di Rocco (Necker Hospital, France) Cases for discussion: Other dysraphisms (Diastemyelia, Neurenteric cysts, Spinal dermal sinus) Paul Steinbok (University of British Columbia, Canada)

9:50–12:00		Ⅴ. Vascular
Chairpersons	:	Dachling Pang (Kaiser Oakland Medical Center, USA) Isao Date (Okayama University, Japan) Tatsuya Nagashima (Hyogo Children’s Hospital, Japan)
		Pediatric vascular malformation: Pathogenesis, diagnosis, endovascular management Yasunari Niimi (St. Luke’s International Hospital, Japan) Radiosurgery for brain AVM Motohiro Hayashi (Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Japan) Principles of AVM surgery Kazuhiko Nozaki (Shiga University of Medical Science, Japan) Moyamoya disease Satoshi Kuroda (University of Toyama, Japan) Vein of Galen malformation Masaki Komiyama (Osaka City General Hospital, Japan)

13:15–14:45		Ⅵ. Cysts
Chairpersons	:	Federico Di Rocco (Necker Hospital, France) Kenichi Nishiyama (Niigata University, Japan)
		Classification and radiological features of intracranial arachnoid cysts in children Gianpiero Tamburrini (Catholic University, Italy) Suprasellar Cysts: An experience at SNUCH Kyu-Chang Wang (Seoul National University Hospital, Korea) Posterior fossa cysts Ulrich- Wilhelm Thomale (Charité- Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany)

14:45–16:15		Ⅶ. Craniosynostosis
Chairpersons	:	Tadanori Tomita (Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, USA) Takuya Akai (Kanazawa Medical University, Japan)
		Classification and clinical work-up Paul Steinbok (University of British Columbia, Canada) Scaphocephaly: Why and when – Indications Ulrich- Wilhelm Thomale (Charité- Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany) Trigonocephaly: indications Federico Di Rocco (Necker Hospital, France)

Secretariat

Department of Neurosurgery, Juntendo University
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