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Scientific Program for NEUROCON 2012

19th – 22nd December 2012

Detailed Scientific Programme

Identification of Halls

Pearl Ball Room ( Main Hall ) Hall - I // Hall – IA + IB (Neurosurgery) Maple Room Hall – II (Neurology)

Royal Room Hall - III A (Neurosurgery) Royal Room II Hall- III B (Posters)

Board Room Lounge(100) Hall – IV (Neurosurgery / Nurses)

Wednesday 19th December, 2012

CME

Convenors: V P Singh, Murlidharan Nair

Hall I

0830 - 0840 Inauguration by the NSI President Keki Turel

0840 - 0910 Futuristic Neurosurgery Madjid Samii, Germany Chairpersons : A K Banerjee, Keki Turel, G K Ahuja

0910 - 1040 Symposium on good paper writing, presentation & critical evaluation Peush Sahni, Rakesh Agarwal

1040 - 1100 TEA / COFFEE

Concurrent Neurosurgery Session – Hall I

Neurosurgery session : Advances in Neurosurgery Chairpersons : A N Jha, S S Kale, Rakesh Jalali

1100 - 1125 CNS radiotherapy: What every neurosurgeon should know Rakesh Jalali, TMH, Mumbai

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1125 - 1150 Practical spine biomechanics for clinical practice S S Kale, AIIMS, New Delhi

1150 - 1215 Epilepsy Surgery: Future Directions Bhaskar Rao, NIMHANS, Bengaluru

1215 - 1240 Intraoperative MRI & CT imaging in daily use A Unterberg, Germany

1240 – 1245 Discussion

1245 - 2000 Lunch

1305 - 1400 Neurosurgery Lunch Symposium on Eloquent Area Tumors Chairpersons : A Suri, Ari Chacko, Subodh Hiren

1305 - 1325 Preoperative localisation Nitin Anand, USA

1305 - 1325 Intraoperative monitoring Srinivas Babu

1325 - 1345 Surgery for eloquent area tumors Ari Chacko, CMC, Vellore

1345 - 1400 Discussion

Neurosurgery Session: Evidence Based Neurosurgery Chairpersons : A K Singh, Dilip Panikar, L N Gupta

1400 - 1425 Decompressive craniectomy Dilip Panikar, AIMS, Kochi

1425 - 1450 Management of spinal metastasis R Easwaran

1450 - 1515 Cervical disc prosthesis – the evidence R Firsching, Germany

Neurosurgery Session: Controversies in Neurosurgery Chairpersons : R C Mishra, V Rashekhar, Paritosh Pandey

1515 - 1600 Recurrent GBM – Aggressive vs Conservative Approach Alok Ranjan, New Delhi – Kanchan Mukherjee, Chandigarh (15 + 15 + 15 discussion)

1600 - 1645 Chiari with syringomyelia – FMD vs syrinx drainage with or without FMD N Muthukumar, Madurai – Keki Turel, Mumbai (15 + 15 + 15 discussion)

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1645 - 1710 Current management of syringomyelia Jorg Klekamp, Germany

Concurrent Neurology Session – Hall II

Neurology session: Advances in Neurology Chairpersons : Laxmi Narasimhan, M D Nair, Lekha Pandit

1100 – 1130 Multiple sclerosis: Imaging Advances Lakshmi Narasimhan

1130 – 1200 Multiple sclerosis: Recent Trends Lekha Pandit, Mangalore

1200 – 1230 Atrial fibrillation & stroke: Recent Advances Kameshwar Prasad, New Delhi

1230 – 1300 Secondary prophylaxis of stroke: What’s New Deepak Gupta, New Delhi

1300 – 1400 Lunch Break

Neurology Session Chairpersons : Madhuri Behari, Uday Muthane, George Jacob

1400 – 1430 Extra temporal epilepsy: Surgical Considerations S Raghavendra

1430 – 1500 Drug induced movement disorders Uday Muthane

1500 – 1530 Vertigo – new perceptions Ajay Kumar Vats, Udaipur

1530 – 1600 Acute myelitis: diagnostic challenges George Jacob

1600 – 1630 Bedside Neuropsychological examination M Madhusudanan, Thiruvanan

1630 – 1700 Neurological spectrum in HIV Ram Shekhar Menon

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Thursday 20th December, 2012

0800 – 0900 : Morning Symposiums

0800 - 0900 - Hall I Session: Vascular: Intracranial Aneurysm Chairpersons: S N Mathuriya, Vipul Gupta, Daljit Singh

0800 - 0815 Anteroir Circulation Anerysums Managements : Pearls of wisdom S N Mathuriya, Chandigarh

0815 - 0830 Posterior circulation aneurysms- A 10yrs institutional experience P Sarat Chandra, New Delhi

0830 - 0845 Embolization as primary method of treatment for cerebral aneurysms: Is it possible? Vipul Gupta, Gurgaon

0845 - 0900 Complication of endovascular procedures: Does reality bite? Daljit Singh, New Delhi

0800 – 0900 : Hall II Session: Status Epilepticus Chairpersons: J M K Murthy, S Raghvendra, M Mehndiratta

0800 - 0820 Pathophysiology of Status Epilepticus R Shivakumar, Bengaluru

0820 - 0840 Treatment of Status Epilepticus Rajesh Iyer, Bengaluru

0840 - 0900 Discussion

0800 - 0900 : Hall III A Session: Endoscopy in Spinal Decompression Chairpersons: S Rohidas, S S Kale, P K Sahoo

0800 - 0815 Endoscopic anterior cervical discectomy & canal decompression in compressive radiculopathy & myeloradiculopathy - disc preserving surgery S Rohidas, Kolhapur

0815 - 0830 Posterior endoscopic management of cervical compressive myelopathy Y R Yadav, Jabalpur

0830 - 0845 Minimally invasive approaches to the upper cervical spine : The endonasal approach - Advantages, Limitation and Pitfall Harman Singh, USA

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0845 - 0900 Endoportal Endomicroscopic corpectomy of thoracic and lumbar spine – A Novel Technique of Minimal invasive spine surgery Shyam Sunder, Trivandrum

0800 - 0900 : Hall IV Session: Intraventricular Tumors Chairpersons: H N Agarwal, Indira Devi, Hemant Bharatiya

0800 - 0815 Intraventricular Tumors Indira Devi, Bangalore

0815 - 0830 Endoscopic excision of colloid cyst Hemant Bharatiya, Jaipur

0830 - 0845 Transcallosal micro surgical excision of colloid cyst R C Mishra, Agra

0845 - 0900 Endoscopic Management of thalamic tumors Manas Panigrahi, Hyderabad

0900 – 1100 : Hall I Session : Award Papers Chairpersons: C E Deopujari, H H Dash, Ashok Panagariya

Neurology Award Papers

0900 - 0912 Depression in Post Stroke Aphasia: Prevalence and relationship with disability in stroke survivors Abhishek Srivastava, Mumbai

Neurosurgery Award Papers

0912 - 0924 Role of serum S100B and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) level in predicting the outcome after traumatic brain injury(TBI) Raghavendra H, New Delhi

0924 - 0936 Outcome of revascularization in Moyamoya disease: Evaluation of a new angiographic scoring system Siddhartha Shankar Sahoo, New Delhi

Allied Award Papers

0936 - 0948 A genetic study of 40 pediatric patients of developmental craniovertebral junction anomalies Avnish Kumar Chauhan, New Delhi

0948 - 1000 Tumor Necrotic Factor α and its gene polymorphism in prognostication of moderate and severe head injury patients Renuka Satyanarayana Sharma, Hyderabad

Neuro Oncology Award Papers

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1000 - 1012

Meningeal hemangiopericytoma – a clinicopathological, immunohistochemical and molecular genetic study, with emphasis on MGMT (O6 – methylguanine - DNA methyltransferase) promoter methylation status Aanchal Kakkar, New Delhi

1012 - 1024 Implications of MGMT methylation status in pituitary adenoma Mohammed Abdul Majaid, Bangalore

Award Paper - Epilepsy Award

1024 - 1036 Differential Expression Of Mammalian Hippo Signaling Components In Human Epilepsy Resected Samples Sathwik R Shetty

Award Paper - Cost Effective Management

1036 -1048 Cost-effectiveness of Cell saver in unstable thoracolumbar fractures Deepak Agarwal, New Delhi

Award Paper AASAN

1048 - 1100 Surgical outcome analysis in Intraspinal Ependymomas Tarapore P, USA

1100 - 1115 Tea / Coffee Break

1115 - 1200 Hall - I Jacob Chandi Oration Orator : Madjid Samii Chairpersons : R C Mishra, B S Sharma Introduction : Keki Turel, Mumbai Topic : Neurosurgery in the service of functional preservation and improvement

1205 – 1300 Hall - I Presidential Oration Orator : Keki E Turel Chairpersons : C E Deopujari, V K Jain Introduction : Atul Goel Topic : The Making Of a Neurosurgeon

1300 - 1430 Lunch + Poster Reviewing Section 1A & 1B(Hall III B) Poster 1A – from 1 to 22 Reviewers : A K Reddy, Deepak Agarwal Poster 1 B – from 23 to 45 Reviewers : R L Sengar, Dhaval Shukla

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1300 – 1400 Sessions : Luncheon Seminars

Hall I Topic : "Neurosurgery OT's of future" Speaker : Shoichi Ishihara (Japan) Moderators: AK Singh, AN Jha Sponsor: Schiller and Kaplin Biosciences

Hall II Topic : "How can neurosurgeons and neurologist learn and practice neuro intervention" Speakers : AP Karapurkar (Mumbai), Zakir Hussain (Delhi) Moderator : AP Karapurkar Sponsor: Stryker

Hall – III A "Acute management of stroke" Speakers : M V Padma (Delhi), Subhash Kaul (Hyderabad) Moderator : M V Padma Sponsor : Boerhinger "MRI-PET: The next step in multi modal imaging" Speakers : Moderator : Subhash Kaul Sponsor : Siemens

Hall IV Topic : "The practice of Botilinium toxin for Neurologists-Hands on workshop" Speakers : Madhuri Behari (Delhi), Uday Muthane (Bangalore) Moderator : Madhuri Behari Sponsor: Allergan

1430 – 1500 Hall - I Plenary Session German Presidential Lecture Topic: Innovative methods of intraoperative visualization: Optical Imaging and CARS-Microscopy Gabriele Schackert President, DGNC, Germany Chairpersons : K E Turel, A K Mahapatra, V G Ramesh

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1500 – 1530 Hall – I Plenary Session German Guest Lecture Topic: Secondary ischemia following subarachnoid hemorhage – What kind of monitoring is helpful in diagnosis and treatment? Meixensberger Jürgen, Former President, DGNC, Germany Chairpersons : B K Misra, V Rajshekhar, P Sarat Chandra

1530 – 1545 Tea / Coffee

1545 – 1700 Parallel Afternoon Sessions

Hall 1 Session : Skull Base Chairpersons : Deepu Banerji, V K Jain, Ravi Mohan Rao

1545 – 1600 Surgical strategies in sellar and perisellar meningiomas Martin Bettag, Germany

1600 – 1610

Clinical presentation and postoperative health related quality of life of patients with frequent types of skull base meningiomas of the posterior fossa Bogdan Pintea, Germany

1610 – 1620 Results of surgical management of craniopharyngioma: A Single Institute Experience Mayur Kamath V, Mumbai

1620 - 1630 Cavernous Hemangioma of Cavernous Sinus: 14 years single institutional experience of 22 cases Sumit Bansal, New Delhi

1630 - 1640 Cushing’s disease – Analysis of 240 cases Atul Goel, Mumbai

1640 - 1650 Extended endoscopic endonasal approach for pituitary adenomas Suresh Sankhla

1650 - 1655 Pituitary tuberculosis – uncommon site of a common disease Kaushik Sil

1655 - 1700 Analysis of complicalications and avoidance in Expanded endonasal skullbase surgery Manish Vaish

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Hall – II Session : Epilepsy Chairpersons : Satish Chandra , M M Mehndiratta, Mathew Abraham

1545 – 1600 Approach to initiation and withdrawal of AEDs in Epilepsy Satish Chandra, Bangalore

1600 – 1610

The role of intraoperative 1.5 T MRI in Improvement of results of Epilepsy surgery Animesh Upadhay, Aditya Gupta, Sumit Singh , Atmaram Bansal, Nitin Maheshwari , A N Jha, Gurgaon

1610 – 1620

Is invasive monitoring for refractory epilepsy always worth the colossal effort? George C Vilanilam, Mathew Abraham, Suresh Nair, Kurupath Radhakrishnan, Tiruvantapuram

1620 – 1630 Epilepsy Surgery - a single surgeon experience in the UK Vivek Josan, UK

1630 - 1640 Heart Variability Non linear analysis as a method of epileptic seizures Volodymyr Kharytonov, Ukraine

1640 - 1650 How worthwhile are palliative surgical procedures for refractory epilepsy? Arun P S, George C Vilanilam, Mathew Abraham, Suresh Nair, Radhakrishnan, Tiruvantapuram

1650 - 1655 Posterior Qua antectomy for Refractory Seizures-SCTIMST experience. Shivshankar Marajakke, Mathew Abraham, G Vilanilam, R Ashalata, K Radhakrishnan, S Nair, Tiruvantapuram

1655 - 1700

Comparison of the Efficacy of Oral Valproate and Levetiracetam among subjects with Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy (JME) in a tertiary care institute in India Manoj Khanal, Parampreet Kharbanda, Sudesh Prabhakar, Chandigarh

Hall – III A Session: Pediatric Chairpersons: AK Mahapatra, V D Sinha, Sandeep Vaishya

1545 - 1600 Brainstem Tumors in children George Jallo, USA

1600 - 1610 Revisiting brain Abscess in children with cyanotic congenital heart disease: Changing times, changing significance? Ayyadurai R, Suhas Udayakumaran, Dilip Panikar, Kochi

1610 - 1620 Problems of paediatric spinal tuberculosis Sudipta Bhattacharya, Sandip Chaterjee, Kolkotta

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1620 - 1630 Management of the Dandy – Walker Complex: towards rationalizing management Sunil Kumar Singh, Chitij Srivastava, BK Ojha, Anil Chandra, Lucknow

1630 - 1640 Pediatric gliomas - An analysis of 68 cases Gowthan Devareddy, Chennai

1640 - 1650 Clinical characteristics and predictors of surgical outcome in children and adolescents with temporal lobe epilepsy S Sita Jayalakshmi, Manas Panigrahi, Sailaja M, Shanmukhi S, Hyderabad

1650 - 1655 Syringo Pleural Shunt - Best modality for large non collapsing syrinx D Yogesh Baliram Vargantwar

1655 - 1700 Clinico-radiological criteria for surgical intervention in paediatric extradural haemorrhage (EDH) patients Somil Jaiswal

Hall – IV Session : Recent Advances Chairpersons : Manas Panigrahi, Rakesh Ranjan, Manmohan Singh.

1545 - 1600 Intraoperative MRI and Awake Craniotomy: Evaluation of a challenging combination Arya Nabavi, Germany

1600 - 1610 Intraopertive MRI and Navigation in Glioma Surgery- What is the Benefits Amir Samii, Germany

1610 - 1620 Intraoperative ultrasound in neurosurgical oncology – Evolution from two-dimensional (2D) to three-dimensional (3D) navigable US. Aliasgar Moiyadi, Mumbai

1620 - 1630 Germ Cell Tumors After Transplantation of Adult Bone Marrow Stem Cells Into the Ischemic Brain Terry Burn, USA

1630 - 1640 From Identification to Certification of Brain Stem Death - The Role of Neurosurgeon for a social cause in a public hospital J Mariano Anto Bruno-Mascarenhas

1640 - 1650 Radioguided Neurosurgery for Supratentorial eloquent cortex high grade Gliomas Yanish Bhanot

1650 - 1655 Awake craniotomy for pericentral lesions – feasibility and benefits Rakesh Ranjan

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1655 - 1700

The Role of Neuronavigation Guided Functional MRI and Diffusion Tensor Tractography along with Cortical Stimulation in patients with Eloquent Cortex lesions Amandeep Kumar, New Delhi

1700 – 1800 Hall – I Clinical Forum Meet the experts: Case Presentation ( Surgical ) Moderators : Sanjay Behari, P Sarat Chandra, Manas Panigrahi Chairpersons : R C Mishra, C E Deopujari

1700 – 1800 Hall – II Medical Session - CPC Vivek Lal, Vani Santosh, Ashok Panagariya

1800 onwards Hall - I General Body Meeting

Friday 21st December, 2012

0800 – 0900 - Morning Symposium

Hall – I Session : Brain Tumors Chairpersons : Vani Santosh , B K Misra, Ashish Suri,

0800 – 0815 Intracranial Meningioma - improvements over 40 years of personal experience Maximilian Mehdorn, Germany

0815 – 0830 Clivus Chordoma: Evolution in Management B K Misra, Mumbai

0830 – 0845 Role of surgical adjunts in neurosurgical oncology: is there evidence? Aliasgar Moyiadi

0845 – 0900 Medulloblastomas: Recent advances in risk stratification Chitra Sarkar, New Delhi

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Hall – II Session : Stroke Chairpersons : Ashok Pangaria, S P Gorthi, Vinod Puri

0800 - 0815 Acute Management of Ischemic Stroke, The Catch 22 Situation Arun Garg, Consulting Neurologist, Medanta Institute

0815 - 0830 Decompresive Hemispherectomy in Massive Occlusive Strokes - A study Analysis Rohit Bhatia, AIIMS, New Delhi

0830 - 0845 Venus Strokes - What Neurologists and Neurosurgeons need to know Bhawna Sharma, SMS Medical College & Hospital, Jaipur

0845 - 0900 Discussion

Hall – III A Session : PNS Chairpersons : Ketan Desai, Rajendra Prasad, Sumit Sinha

0800 - 0815 Management of Brachial Plexus Lesions P S Bhandari

0815 - 0830 Dynamic Restoration of Function for Facial Paralysis Ashok Gupta

0830 - 0845 Management of tumors of pheripheral nerves Ketan Desai

0845 - 0900 Flail upper limb reconstruction in adults M R Thatte

Hall – IV Session : High Field MRI Chairpersons : P N Tandon, Sandeep Chatterjee, Ajay Garg

0800 - 0815 Metabolic profiling and its use in diagnostics and study of disease etiology Parvat Mandal, NBRC

0815 - 0830 Newer clinical applications of MRI Ajay Garg, AIIMS New Delhi

0830 - 0845 Ultra-high field 7T MRI for neurosurgical patients - experiences from 200 cases Karsten Wrede, Germany

0845 - 0900 Discussion

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0900 – 1000 - Free Papers

Hall – I Session : Vascular Chairpersons : H Mahajan, Gaurav Goel, S K Gupta

0900 - 0910

Clinical & Angiographic spectrum of spontaneous dissection in the cerebral vasculature – A retrospective review of 41 cases from a Tertiary stroke centre Ravi Anadure, Army College of Medical Sciences, Base Hospital, New Delhi

0910 - 0920 Whole brain CT perfusion for acute stroke using a 256 Gaurav Goel, Bengaluru

0920 - 0930 HCA2 mediated protective effect of nicotinic acid in cerebral ischemia Muhammed Sajjad, Germany

0930 - 0940 Risk factors mechanism and outcome of various stroke subtypes: Hyderabad Stroke Registry Subhash Kaul, Hyderabad

0940 - 0950 Follow up (24 Hour) “CT Swirl Sign” predicts outcome in primary acute intracerebral hemorrhage Praveen Kesav, PGIMER, Chandigarh

0950 - 0955 Concomitant infection exacerbates outcome after ischemic brain injury Muhammed Sajjad, Germany

0955 - 1000 Do D dimer values help in predicting cardioembolic strokes? Adatia Sweta Prakash, University of Calgary, Canada

Hall – II Session : Endoscopy Chairperson: Ajay Sharma, Y R Yadav, Suresh Sankhla

0900 - 0910 Role of Endoscopic Third Ventriculostomy in Shunt Malfunction Shivender Sobti, New Delhi

0910 - 0920 Endoscopic 3rd ventriculostomy with or without additional procedures: A personal experience Ashok Nirala, Lucknow

0920 - 0930 Role of repeat Endoscopic Third Ventriculostomy(re ETV ) in treatment of hy ocephalus Daljit Singh, New Delhi

0930 - 0940 Learning Neuroendoscopy with An Exoscope system (VITOM) for cranial and Spinal Surgery: Early clinical results Vijay Singh Parihar, Jabalpur

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0940 - 0950 Post-TBM hydrocephalus treated by Endoscopic Third Ventriculostomy: Prognostic Factors for Surgical Outcome Deepak Kumar Singh, New Delhi

0950 - 1000 Shunt vs ETV in the management of hydrocephalus in TBM : A Randomized controlled study Pawan Goyal, Lucknow

Hall – III A Session : Neuro Intensive Chairpersons : Dilip Kulkarni, Deepak Gupta, Mary Abraham

0900 - 0915 Prognostication in Neurosurgical Anaesthesia : An Overview Dilip Kulkarni, Hyderabad

0915 - 0930 Clinical & Research updates in Spinal Cord injury Shekhar Kurpad, USA

0930 - 0940 Cerebral microdialysis in traumatic brain injury : Implementation and standardization study in a level I apex trauma in India Deepak Gupta, New Delhi

0940 - 0945 Serum magnesium in severe head injury outcome Raghavendra Nayak, Bangalore

0945 - 0950

A Randomized Placebo controlled trial (Factorial design) of Progesterone with or without hypothermia in subjects with acute severe traumatic brain injury Sumit Sinha, New Delhi

0950 - 0955 An Indigenous Poor-man's ICP Monitoring System In Resource Constrained Setting Shameem Ahmed, Guwahati

0955 - 1000 A prospective study of clinico-radiological appearance and outcome in patients with Acute traumatic subdural hematoma Ejaz Alam, New Delhi

Hall – IV Session : Neuro Rehabilitation Chairpersons : Nirmal Surya, Raj Kumar, Rajendra Prasad

0900 – 0915 Neurorehabilitation in India - Current scenario Nirmal Surya, Mumbai

0915 – 0930 Rehabilitation in Spinal Cord Injury Abhishekh Shrivastava

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0930 – 0945 Functional Outcome following rehabilitation in chronic severe traumatic brain injury patients; A prospective study Anupam Gupta, Bangalore

0945 - 1000 Discussion

1000 - 1015 Tea / Coffee Break

1015 – 1215 Hall - I Symposium on Cranio-Vertebral Junction Anomalies Symposium Convener : P Sarat Chandra Chairpersons : B S Das, B S Sharma, P Sarat Chandra

1015 - 1022 Overview of the symposium and Introduction P Sarat Chandra, AIIMS, New Delhi

1022 - 1035 Surgical anatomy of cranio-vertebral junction: Importance of surgery and biomechanics R Satish, Bengaluru

1035 - 1048 Trans-oral and other anterior procedures for cranio-vertebral junction anomalies S S Kale, AIIMS, New Delhi

1048 - 1101 Instrumentation: Wiring techniques and Trans-articular screw fixation: V K Jain, Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi

1101 - 1114 Instrumentation: Pedicular screw and Trans-laminar screw fixation, lateral mass fixation techniques and other techniques Sanjiv Sinha, GB Pant, New Delhi

1114 - 1127 Facet treatment for basilar invagination Atul Goel, KEM College, Mumbai

1127 - 1140 Chiari-malformation: Can we think in a different way towards management? Jörg Klekamp, Germany

1140 - 1153 Complications, Outcome and fusion rates following surgery Sanjay Behari, SGPGI, Lucknow

1153 - 1215 Panel Discussion and questions

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1015-1215 Hall - II Symposium on Epilepsy for Neurologists and Neurosurgeons Symposium Convener: Manjari Tripathi Chairpersons : S Jain, M Gupta, Manjari Tripathi

1015 - 1020 Overview of the symposium and Introduction M Tripathi, New Delhi

1020 - 1045 The system epilepsies Nico Moshe

1045 - 1110 Network concept in Epilepsy surgery G Mathern, USA

1110 - 1135 Multimodal evaluation and access during epilepsy surgery- does it alter outcomes Nitin Tandon, USA

1135 - 1155 How to set up a presurgical evaluation unit for epilepsy for the beginners Sita Jailaxmi, Hyderabad

1155 - 1215 Panel Discussion

1215 – 1300 Hall - I Ginde Oration Orator : Y K Tu Chairpersons : Deepu Banerjee, Suresh Nair Introduction : V K Jain Topic : Strategies for the management of giant and complex intracranial aneurysms

1300 - 1430 Lunch + Poster Reviewing Section 2A & 2B(Hall III B) Poster 2 A – from 46 to 70 Reviewers : H S Bhatoe, S Sayyad Ali Poster 2 B – from 71 to 84 Reviewers : Achal Srivastava, A Nalini

1300 – 1400 Sessions : Luncheon Seminars

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Hall I Food and neurological disorders Moderators: M Gourie Devi, D C Jain Role of food in neurological disorders John McDougall (USA) Food for thought Thimappa Hegde Sponsor: Surgiwear

Hall II Topic : " Hydrocephalus: Management, controversies and recent advances" Speaker : George Jallo (Johns Hopkins) Moderator : Suresh Sankhla, Mazhar Husain Sponsor: Codman

Hall – III A Navigated pedicle screw guidance Moderator : . Rajendra Prasad Basics of pedicle screw fixation Rajendra Prasad, New Delhi Navigated pedicle screw fixation Manmeet Gill, New Delhi Sponsor : Pediguard

1430 - 1600 Concurrent Free Paper Sessions

Hall – I A Session : Skull Base Chairpersons : Suresh Nair, R Patir, Arvind Kumar Srivastava

1430 - 1440 Ventral compression in adult patients with Chiari 1 malformation sans basilar invagination: cause and management Pravin Salunke, Chandigarh

1440 - 1450 Endodermal cysts - anterior and anterolateral to the brainstem: report of an experience with 14 cases A H Shah, Mumbai

1450 - 1500 Clival Chordoma: Analysis and Results of Our Series of Patients Anshul A Bagdia

1500 - 1510

Posterior Cavernous Anterior Transpetrosal Posteromedial Rhomboid (Dolenc-Kawase Rhomboid) Approach to Posterior Cavernous and Petroclival Lesions Ashish Suri, New Delhi

1510 - 1520 Surgery for trigeminal schwannoma: An institutional experience of 72 cases Suresh Nair, Tiruvantapuram

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1520 - 1530 Foramen Magnum Tumours: An Analysis based on 16 Cases Awadhesh Kumar Jaiswal, Lucknow

1530 - 1535 An analysis of post operative morbidity and mortality following microsurgical excision of large cerebello pontine(CP) angle tumors Pradipta Tripathy, Bhubaneswar

1535 - 1540 Large and giant vestibular schwannomas: Does cistern magna hyperproteinorrhachia influence visual status? Arun Kumar Srivastava

1540 - 1545 Venous sinus preserving 'Crescent' posterior fossa durotomy K Shyam Sundar, Nellore

1545 - 1550 Cerebellopontine Angle Epidermoid: A Clinical Study Amit Kumar Mukherjee, Raipur

1550 - 1555 Pineal region epidermoid tumors - NIMHANS experience Arun Kumar S, Bangalore

1555 - 1600 Surgical approaches to Pineal region tumors Arvind Kumar Srivastava, New Delhi

Hall – I B Session : Spine Chairpersons : Bipin Walia, Anil Pande, Mazhar Hussain

1430 - 1445 Spinal intramedullary cavernoms - microsurgical strategy and postoperative outcome Uwe Spetzger, Germany

1445 - 1455 Quality of Life following Surgery for Herniated Lumbar Disc: Prospective study Shejoy P Joshua, New Delhi

1455 - 1505 Idiopathic Syringomyelia - The Alder Hey Experience Anurag Saxena, UK

1505 - 1515 Tumours of the Conus - Review of 35 cases S Chatterjee, Kolkata

1515 - 1525 The Transpedicular approach to the anterior and anterolateral pathology Anil Pande, Chennai

1525 - 1530 Outcome of anterior cervical procedures - Our Experience S Syed Ali, Chennai

1530 - 1535 3 years outcome following PLIF and TLIF for degenerative Spondylolisthesis - A prospective study Alok Ranjan, Hyderabad

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1535 - 1540 Management of non discogenic back pain: Our Experience of 43 cases Amit Kapoor, New Delhi

1540 - 1545 Outcomes of spine surgery in HIV – seropositive patients : A retrospective study Pari Kodaiarasan, Salem

1545 - 1550

Role of apo e gene polymorphism in predicting surgical outcome in patients with cervical spondylotic myelopathy and ossified posterior longitudinal ligament Tanmoy Kumar Maiti, Bangalore

1550 - 1555 Postoperative cervical disco-vertebral spondylitis : A challenge Krishna Sharma, Kathmandu, Nepal

1555 - 1600 Segmental polymethylmethacrylate augmented fenestrated pedicle screw fixation for Lumbar spondylolisthesis in patients with osteoporosis Vemula Venkata Ramesh Chandra, Tirupathi

Hall – II Session : General Neurology Chairpersons : Vinod Puri, Ashok Panagariya, U K Mishra

1430 - 1445 Know Your brain to be happy and healthy Ashok Panagariya, Jaipur

1445 – 1455 Case Series of Acquired Paediatric Relapsing Remitting Demyelinating Disorders : South Indian University Hospital experience R Subasree, Bangalore

1455 – 1505

Expression of Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor and its receptor Tyrosine Kinase-B in NSC-34 motor neuron cell line following exposure to CSF of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis patients A Nalini, Bangalore

1505 – 1515 Dose dependent facilitation of peripheral nerve regeneration by bone marrow derived mononuclear cells – A Randomised control study Amol Raheja, New Delhi

1515 – 1525 Clinical and histopathological spectrum of muscle disorder patients: eight year experience at IHBAS, Delhi Sujata Chaturvedi, Delhi

1525 – 1530 Optimizing ischaemic stroke therapy using endogenous neural stem cell strategy: A validated neuroinformatics approach Suhela Kapoor

1530 – 1540 CIDP : Evidence based management Vinod Puri

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1540 – 1550 Multiple Sclerosis update in diagnosis and management M Mehndiratta, New Delhi

1550 - 1600 Clinical ile And Outcome Of Myasthenic Crisis In A Tertiary Care Hospital: A Prospective Study Sudhir Sharma, Shimla

Hall – III A Session : Neurotrauma Chairpersons : Vasant Dakwale, Deepak Agarwal, V Sundar

1430 - 1445 “Head trauma management: What was, what is and our hopes for tomorrow.” Vasant Dakwale

1445 - 1500 Principles of Surgery for Peripheral Nerve Injuries P S Bhandari

1500 - 1515 Introcular Hemorrhages in traumatic brain injury, subarachnoid and intracerebral haemorrhage:incidence and risk factors Patrick Czorlich, Germany

1515 - 1525 To investigate the usefulness of Subcutaneously Preserved Autologous Bone Flap Navneet Singla, Sunil Kumar Gupta, Soubam Parkinson Singh, Chandigarh

1525 - 1530 Four Qua ant Osteoplastic Decompressive Craniotomy-- A Novel Technique Vinu V Gopal, Anil Kumar P, Trivandrum

1530 - 1535 Clinicoradiological predictors of outcome of posterior fossa extra dural haematoma Sondev Bansal, A Choudhary, L N Gupta, New Delhi

1535 - 1540 Cranioplasty Sanjay Prabhakar Bendale, Selva Muthukumaran, Madurai

1540 - 1545 Post Traumatic Basal Ganglia Bleed Rohan Sinha, Deepak Jha, Lalit Bhatia, Ravi Tiwary, Amit Handa, Sushil Kumar, Delhi

1545 - 1550 Bone wax as a means of Dural Haemostasis- A Technical Note Sanjay Sharma, Pradeep Bharti, Meerut

1550 - 1555 Management of frontal bone fracture - Our Experience V Rajesh Babu

1555 - 1600 Role of minimally invasive Neurosurgery in Traumatic Brain Injury Karam Chand, Anurag Sharma, New Delhi

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1600 - 1615 Coffee Break

1615 – 1800 Hall – I Session : Video Session (7 + 2 min.) Chairpersons : C E Deopujari , Suresh Nair , BS Sharma

Pterional and Orbitozygomatic Craniotomy with clinoidectomy Sanjay Bhehari, Lucknow

Expansive laminoplasty Sandip Chatterjee, Kolkotta

Transarticular facet screw fixation of the subaxial cervical spine N Muthu Kumar, Madurai

Stereotactic biopsy of thalamic brain stem lesion V Rajshekhar, Vellore

Orbitozygomatic Craniotomy Manas Panigrahi, Hyderabad

Surgical approach to orbital tumors Adil Chagla, Mumbai

Interhemispheric approach for suprasellar tumors B S Sharma, New Delhi

Stich Brain Retractor- A Novel Technique Lokendra Singh, Nagpur

Brain Stem Glioma K Shridhar, New Delhi

7th nerve preservation in various spectra of vestibular schannoma Suresh Nair, Tiruvantapuram

Endoscopic evauation of ICH Suresh Shankla, Mumbai

1615 – 1705 Hall – II Session : Neuropathology and infection Chairpersons : Chitra Sarkar, Vani Santosh

1615-1635 Infection minimizing tumour. Vani Santosh, Bangalore

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1635-1645 Clinical and Radiological spectrum of CSF antimeasles antibody associated encephalopathy (Mrs) S R Chandra, Trivandrum

1645-1655 Craniospinal Hydatid Cyst-NIMHANS Experience Nagarjun M N, Bangalore

1655-1705 Management of Pyogenic Posterior Fossa Abscess with Burr Hole Aspiration: A Case Series Vikas Bhardwaj, Greater Noida

1745 - 1830 EC Meeting II(Board Room)

Saturday 22nd December, 2012

0800 – 0900 : Morning Seminars

0800 – 0900 Hall – I Session : Glioma Chairpersons : S R Dharker, Ravi Bhatia, K V R Shastry

0800 - 0815 Principles of Glioma Surgery Kishore Choudhary, Mumbai

0815 - 0830 Surgical management of gliomas situtated on or adjuncent to eloquent areas of brain Subhash Dharker, Jaipur

0830 - 0845 Surgery of eloquent area lesions Manas Panigrahi, Hyderabad

0845 - 0900 Individualised management of gliomas Keki Turel, Mumbai

0800 – 0900 Hall – II Session : Memory Disorder Chairpersons : M D Nair, Geeta Anjum Khwaja, Hans Markowitsch

0800 - 0820 Clinical approach to memory Aanand Kumar

0820 - 0840 Neuro Anatomical Substrate of memory E Ratnavalli, Bangalore

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0840 – 0850 Comments on Amnesic disorders: Common and unique features of organic and psychogenic etiologies: Hans Markowitsch Germany

0850-0900 Discussion

0800 - 0900 Hall – III A Session : Spine Chairpersons : AK Singh, Patribhan, Sanjay Kumar

0800 - 0815 Lumbar spinal Fusion Revisted : Fashion or necessity? AK Singh, Dehradun

0815 - 0830 Clinical case discussion involving minimally invasive spine surgery Girish Hiremath, USA

0830 - 0845 Surgical Management of Cervical OPLL Deepu Banerji, Mumbai

0845 - 0900 Anterior correction of cervical kyphotic deformity: effects on myelopathy, neck pain, and sagittal alignment Tom Codux Hudson, UK

0800 – 0900 Hall – IV Session : Functional Chairpersons : . Ashok Pangaria , . Ganapathy Krishnan, . Paresh Doshi

0800 - 0815 Neurogenic Bladder Shailesh Raina

0815 - 0830 Peripheral Neuro modulation Milind Deogaonkar, USA

0830 - 0845 Should Cerebral AVM'S Be treated : Why? Where? How? Ganapathy Krishnan, Chennai

0845 - 0900 Percutaneous glycerol rhizotomy for trigeminal neuralgia – a simple and cost effective procedure VG Ramesh, Chennai

0900 – 1030 Hall – I Session : Neuro-oncology Chairpersons : Chitra Sarkar, S Sampath, Ali Asgar Moyiadi

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0900 - 0915 Pilocytic astrocytomas : Current Concepts Chitra Sarkar, New Delhi

0915 - 0930 Management of Insular Gliomas V S Mehta, Gurgaon

0930 - 0940 Diagnostic and management dilemmas in the long term management of hemispheric grade II astrocytomas Anoop Thomas, Kottayam

0940 - 0950 Analysis of CDKN2A/p16 alterations in ependymomas Meher Chand Sharma, New Delhi

0950 - 1000 Gonadotrophic Pituitary Adenoma Iype V George, Vellore

1000 - 1010 Newer insight into the current management of thalamic tumours S Sampath, Bangalore

1010 - 1020 Evaluation of molecular alterations in petroclival meningiomas and their correlation with extent of tumour resection Vaishali S Suri, New Delhi

1020 - 1025 Multimodality treatment of recurrent gliomas in a tertiary neuro-oncology centre Sumana B Pallegar, Chennai

1025 - 1030 Intracranial Metastasis - A review of 110 cases P S Harinivas, , Chennai

1030 - 1035 SHH-GLI signaling pathway activation in gliomas and correlation with stemnesss signature Prerana, New Delhi

0900 - 1030 Hall – II Session : Movement disorders Chairpersons : Madhuri Behari, Paresh Doshi, Suhela Kapoor

0900 - 0915 Deep Brain Stimulation in Parkinsons disease / other movement disorders Madhuri Behari, AIIMS, New Delhi

0915 - 0930 Botulin toxin in Movement Disorders Vinay Goyal, AIIMS, New Delhi

Tremors in Neurology Practice Ravindra Kumar Garg, KGMC, Lucknow

0945 - 1000 Newer trends in Deep Brain Stimulation Milind Deogaonkar, Cleveland (USA)

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1000 - 1015 Role of Lesion Making in Movement disorder surgery Paresh Doshi, Mumbai

1015 - 1030 Discussion

0900 - 1030 Hall – III A Session : Spine Chairpersons : P S Ramani, Awdhesh Jaiswal, Lokendra Singh

0900 - 0915 Changing Trends in posterior lumbar interbody fussion PS Ramani, Mumbai

0915 - 0930 Surgery for Cervical OPLL: Personal Surgical Series of 20 years K Sridhar, Chennai

0930 - 0940 Posterolateral approach for anterior intradural extramedullary thoracic meningiomas; Is it enough Rajkamal, Amritsar

0940 - 0950 Delayed deterioration after central corpectomy for cervical spondylotic myelopathy V Rajshekhar, Vellore

0950 - 1000 Modified costo-transversectomy approach for anterior thoracic cord compressing lesions Are we doing justice to? Lokendra Singh, Nagpur

1000 - 1010 Anterior Atlanto axial fixation using a midline screw plate system: A clinical series with long term follow up V S S V Prasad, Hyderabad

1010 - 1015 Utility of Translaminar C2 screws in Cranio-vertebal junction anomaly Rahul Gupta, Faridabad

1015 - 1020 Chronic Low backache – MRI study in 72 patients UK Misra, Lucknow

1020 - 1025 Adjacent Segment Degeneration in cervical disc disease - Is it always secondary? U S Srinivasan

1025 - 1030 Management of Odontoid fractures – Our Experience Bijesh R, Vellore

0900 - 1030 Hall – IV Session : Vascular Chairpersons : AN Jha, BK Misra, Dwarkanath Srinivas

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0900 - 0915

Future of Aneurysm surgery A N Jha, Gurgaon

0915 - 0930

Microsurgery of Giant Intracranial Aneurysms in the 21st Century B K Misra, Mumbai

0930 - 0940

Cerebral revascularization: NIMHANS experience Paritosh Pandey, Bangalore

0940 - 0950

Moya-Moya Disease: Surgical Management Sunil K Gupta, PGIMER, Chandigarh

0950 - 1000 Extended decompressive hemicraniectomy for patients with malignant hemispheric stroke Johannes Woitzik, Germany

1000 - 1010 Transcranial doppler monitoring, vasospasm, and new ischemic brain lesions after acute subarachnoid hemorrhage: an age-related time to event analysis Marco Stein, Germany

1010 - 1015 MRI CISS imaging in Aneurysms - an adjunct to the existing radiological investigations G Sudheer Kumar, Puducherry

1015 - 1020 Initial experience with microscope-based indocyanine green angiography (ICG ) Bhaskar Kendre, Mumbai

1020 - 1025 Surgical management of brain stem cavernomas Dwarakanath Srinivas, Bangalore

1025 - 1030 Discussion

1030 - 1045 Tea / Coffee Break

1045 - 1215 Hall – I Session : History of Neurosciences Chairpersons : AK Banerji, R L S Sengar, R P Sharma

1045 - 1100 Neurosurgical training over the years VP Singh, New Delhi

1100 - 1115 The Need for an international certification in Neurosurgery Tom Codux Hudson, UK

1115 - 1130 Current status of medical education in India and role of AIIMS in future health delivery system A K Mahapatra, New Delhi

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1130 - 1140 Emil Theodore Kocher (1841 -1917) and Neurosurgery Anil Pande, Chennai

1140 - 1150 Vision for a National Neurotrauma Registry- work done at JPNA Trauma Centre Deepak Agarwal, New Delhi

1150 - 1200 William Vernon Cone(1897-1959)- The unrecognized brilliant and maverick neurosurgeon Gowthan Devareddy, Chennai

1200 - 1210 "Colonel Harvey Cushing" goes to war : The Journey of a gifted Neurosurgeon through a tragic war!! Maneet Gill, New Delhi

1210 - 1215 A chronological march in management of brain tumours P S Harinivas, Chennai

Hall – I 1215-1300

Valedictory Function