3rd Belgian-Dutch Joint Meeting of Neurosurgery Spa-Balmoral, Belgium, October 12-13, 2012 Dear Colleagues neurosurgeons from the Benelux, The NVvN and BSN boards are pleased to invite you to the 3rd Bel-NL Joint Meeting of Neurosurgery, which will take place at the Hotel Balmoral in Spa, Belgium on October 12-13, 2012. We hope that the formula will be as pleasant and exciting as it was in the first two joint meetings in Ostend and Maastricht in the past. We have focused the discussion on two topics that might be attractive for each of us in our daily practice: 1.The issue of performing fusion or not at surgery of the degenerative lumbar spine; 2.The different strategies allowing to optimize the surgical resection of brain gliomas. We hope that these topics and the pro/cons discussions will interest the young trainees as well as the senior colleagues, whether they work in private or academic practice. We invite everyone to submit short reports or communications of their experience or special cases in relation with the two topics. Summary needs to be sent to bpirotte@ulb.ac.be The only individual cost of the meeting will be 110/140 euros for one night (www.hotelspabalmoral.be Phone number: +32 (0) 87 79 32 50 ). Please make the reservation directly to the hotel and send us an email to confirm your participation (bpirotte@ulb.ac.be)
Friday October 12, 2012: Dutch Society of Neurosurgery Meeting 12:00 13:00 : Welcomedrink 13:30 15:00 : Plenarysession : indications and benefitof fusionin lumbarspinedegenerativediseases? Chair : Jan Willem BERKELBACH van SPRENKEL (NL) & Willem Bart SLOOFF (NL) History and introduction: Benoit JM PIROTTE (Bel) 15 Invited speaker Bel (pro): Increasing indications and significant benefit: Patrick VAN SCHRAEYBROECK (Bel) 30 Invited speaker NL(cons): No indication and limited benefit: Wilco PEUL (NL) 30 30 15:00 15:30 : Coffee break 15:30 17:30 : Free communications: Fusion in lumbar spine degenerative diseases? In canal stenosis, far lateral disc herniation, lumbar painful discopathies & failed-back surgery Chair : Dirk VAN ROOST (Bel) & EelcoW. HOVING (NL) Bart DEPREITERE, Giovanni ALESSI, Patrick VAN SCHRAEYBROECK, Benoit JM PIROTTE (Bel) Mark ARTS, Maarten COPPENS, Ronald BARTELS, Mark SCHREUDER (NL) 17:30 18:30 : Dutch Society of Neurosurgery, General Assembly 20:00 20:30 : Welcome cocktail 20:30 23:00 : Gala Dinner
Saturday October 13, 2012: Belgian Society of Neurosurgery Meeting 9:00 10:30 : Plenarysession: Maximal surgicalresectionimproveslow-grade and high-grade gliomasoutcome: Pre- and per-operative techniques for optimizing tumor resection in the Netherlands and Belgium Chair: Pierre ROBE (NL) & Johannes VAN LOON (Bel) Introduction: Benefit from surgery and limitations of conventional imaging for guiding resection: PET-SPECT-guided glioma resection: techniques, protocols and clinical benefit: Preoperative fmri and DTI tractography, techniques, protocols: Intraoperative MRI, techniques, protocols and results of low-field intraoperative MRI: Intraoperative MRI, techniques, protocols and results of high-field intraoperative MRI: (Site of recurrenceof glioblastomaaftergrosstotal removalusingan intraoperative3t MRI) Clemens DIRVEN (NL) Benoit JM PIROTTE (Bel) Stephan SUNAERT(Bel) Pieter KUBBEN (NL) Geraldo VAZ (Bel) 11:00 1130 : Coffee break 11:30 13:00 : Plenarysession: Maximal surgicalresectionimproveslow-grade and high-grade gliomasoutcome: Pre- and per-operative techniques for optimizing tumor resection in the Netherlands and Belgium Chair : Clemens DIRVEN (NL) & Benoit JM PIROTTE (Bel) 13:00 14:00 : Lunch Awakesurgery, techniques, protocolsand resultsin LGG: Awake surgery, techniques, protocols and results in HGG: Awake surgery, importance of the intraoperative neuropsychological testing: Steven DE VLEESCHOUWER (Bel) Pierre ROBE (NL) Marieke van ZANDVOORT (NL) 14:00 16:30 : Plenarysession: Maximal surgicalresectionimproveslow-grade and high-grade gliomasoutcome: Pre- and per-operative techniques for optimizing tumor resection in The Netherlands and Belgium Chair : Johannes VAN LOON(Bel) & Dirk VAN ROOST(Bel) Fluorescence-guidedgliomaresection: techniques, protocolsand results: DTI-guidance for glioma surgery and the use of intraoperative stimulation: Radiosurgery as adjunct for optimizing glioma resection: 16:30 : Conclusion and closure Steven DE VLEESCHOUWER (Bel) Geert-Jan RUTTEN (NL) Nicolas MASSAGER (Bel)
www.hotelspabalmoral.be One-night bed+breakfast = 110 euros single room 140 euros double room Spa-Balmoral Hotel Tel: +32 (0) 87 79 32 50