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NSI EDUCATIONAL COURSE

The first NSI Educational Course for final year neurosurgical trainees (M.Ch. and DNB) will be held atMumbai from 3rd to 5th February 2012. Only 30 registrants will be accommodated.

For further details please contact Dr. C. E. Deopujari, Convener, Educational Cell, NeurologicalSociety of India, [email protected]

BIDS FOR SYMPOSIA IN THE 2012 AND 2013 ANNUAL CONFERENCES AT DELHI AND MUMBAI

Bids are invited to organize one Neurology and one Neurosurgery Symposium at the AnnualConference of the Society to be held in Delhi in December 2012 and Mumbai in December 2013.Please send the bids to the Secretary ([email protected]) in the following formatbefore November 30, 2011 (for Delhi conference) and March 31st 2012 (for Mumbai conference):

Subject of SymposiumProposed coordinatorProposed speakersThe symposia are usually of 1.5 to 2 hours duration and are held on Day 2 of the Annual Meeting.

TRAVELLING FELLOWSHIPS - NSI

Travelling fellowships are available for members of the Society to attend conferences and also tovisit different centres in the country.For eligibility please visit the website (www.neurosocietyindia.org) or write to the Treasurer, NSI.

TRAVELLING FELLOWSHIPS – WFNS (I) TRUST

Travelling fellowships are available from the WFNS (I) trust to attend conferences both within Indiaand outside. Please write to Dr. A. K. Banerji, A – 3, Sector – 26, NOIDA – [email protected] are available on the NSI website (Download Forms section)

TRAVELLING FELLOWSHIPS - WFN (I) TRUST

Application form for financial support to attend International/National Conferences/Workshop forthe year 2011 is available with Dr. S. Prabhakar, Secretary-Treasurer, XIVth World Congress ofNeurology India Trust, House No.110, Sector 16-A, Chandigarh-160015. Email:[email protected]

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15th December 2011 (Thursday)

08.00 – 08.30 Inauguration

Common Session09.00 – 10.40 (20mins talk + 5mins discussion)

Chairpersons: Gauri Devi / BS Das

09.00 The phenomenon of cerebral dominance and its practical clinical implications -Meena Gupta [New Delhi]

09.25 Neuro-Genetics; An update and overview - Sunil Narayan, [Pondicherry]09.50 Evolution of surgery for chronic pain: from brain to periphery - Milind Deogaonkar[

Harvard, USA]10.15 Neuronal Enhancement - Sanjay P Singh [Omaha, USA]10.40 – 11.00 COFFEE BREAK

Concurrent Session – 1 Neurosurgery [Oncology]11.00 -13.30 (20mins talk + 5mins discussion)

Chairpersons: SK Shanker, BK Mishra

11.00 Intra-operative Image guidance and its impact on Outcome - Ajay N Jha [NewDelhi]

11.25 Current trends in the Management of low grade Gliomas – Anandha B [Mumbai]11.50 Molecular pathology of diffuse low grade gliomas – Vani Santosh [Banglore]12.15 Aggressive meningioma – An overview with management Strategies - RC Mishra

[Agra]12.40 Markers of Meningiomas in Recurrences – Chitra sarkar [AIIMS New Delhi]13.00 Current trends in the management of Medulloblastoma - Girish Menon

[Trivandrum]

13.30 – 14.15 LUNCH

Concurrent Session – 2 Neurosurgery [12MINUTES + 6 at end of session]14.15 – 15.15 Differing View

I - Asymptomatic Tethered Cord Discussants : AK Mahapatra / CS Deopujari Observation Only : Sandip Chatterjee [ Kolkata] Surgical Intervention : NK Venkatramana [ Bangalore]

II - Arthroplasty for Degenerative disc disease Discussants : Ramakrishna E / R Satish Lumbar Disc Arthroplasty : Review - DV Rajakumar [ Banglore] Against Arthroplasty : K Sridhar [ Chennai]

CME Programme

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Concurrant Session – 3 Neurosurgery (15 + 5 minutes)15.20 – 16.20 How I Do It

Extended endoscopic transnasal skullbase surgery - CS Deopujari [ Mumbai]Discussant – Ashish Suri

Dorsal Median Approach for Intramedullary Tumors – Lokendra Singh [ Nagpur]Discussant – VP Singh

Trans- sylvian Transtentorial approach to petro-clival tumors – SK Gupta [PGI Chandigarh]Discuussant - Ravi Mohan Rao

Concurrent Session - 1 Neurology Aphasia11.00 – 12.40 (20mins talk + 5mins discussion)

Chairpersons: A.B. Taly, A.K. Roy

11.00 Theoritical epidemiological and humanitarian importance of Aphasia -P. Karanth, Bangalore

11.25 An overview of methods of aphasia assessment - Ratnavalli, Bangalore11.50 Aphasia Syndromes and clinico imaging correlates - Mathuranath, Trivandrum12.15 Cognitive Neuropsychological model based therapy – A Pauranik, Indore12.45 – 13.30 LUNCH

Concurrent Session - 2 Neurology13.30 –15.10 (20mins talk + 5mins discussion)

Chairperson: S.P. Gorthi

13.30 Magneto-encephalography - Sanjay P Singh, Omaha,USA13.55 Controversies in Epilepsy - P Satish Chandra, Banglore14.20 Status Epilepticus - JMK Murthy, Hyderabad14.45 Psychogenic pseudoseizures - Achal Shrivastva, New Delhi

Concurrent Session - 3 Neurology15.15 – 16.30 (20mins talk + 5mins discussion)

Chairperson: C. Narayan

15.15 Rating scales in neurosciences: Principles, utilities and limitations- Debashish Chowdhury, Delhi

15.40 Neuromuscular disease in critical care settings - Satish Khadilkar, Mumbai16.05 Neurological disorders in pregnancy - Sudesh Prabhakar, Chandigarh

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Scientific Programme

Day 1 - 16th December 2011 (Friday)

Concurrent Morning Seminar Hall 1 Neurosurgery08.00 – 09.00 (15mins talk + 5mins discussion)

Chairpersons: Mazhar Hussain08.00 Neuroendoscopic management of posterior third ventricle and pineal region

tumors: technique, limitations and possible complication avoidance - SalvatoreChibbaro

08.20 Endoscopic Endonasal management of clival chordomas - Salvatore Chibbaro08.40 Endoscopy in Skull base surgery: Fashion, Fiction and Facts - B K Misra

Concurrent Morning Seminar Hall 2 Neurosurgery08.00 – 09.00 (15mins talk + 5mins discussion)

Chairpersons: Ari Chacko08:00 Spinal intradural extramedullary tumors: Personal Experience - Lucias Benvenuti08:20 Spinal intradural extramedullary tumor: is neurophysiological monitoring necessary?

- Franco Servadei08:40 Recurrencies rate after surgical treatment for spinal intradural meningiomas and

neurinomas: 10years of follow-up - Giancarlo Guzziardi

Concurrent Morning Seminar Hall 3 Neurology and Allied08.00 – 09.00 (15mins talk + 5mins discussion)

Chairperson: Nirmal SuryaIntroduction: Satish Chandra8:00 Pre surgical Evaluation - Raghuvendra8:20 Epilepsy surgery: Indian experience - Mohan Rao8:40 Epilepsy surgery: American Experience - Singh

Award Papers Common Session Hall 109.00-11.12 (10mins talk+ 2mins discussion)

Chairpersons: Satish Chandra, A B TalyBest Paper in Neurology9:00 Assessment of autonomic dysfunction in patients with cervical spondylotic

myelopathy (CSM) using the sympathetic skill response (SSR) test: - KumbharKartik R

Epilepsy Award Paper9:12 Co-registration of MRI, PET and Electrocorticographic data for neocortical lesional

epilepsies improves localization of the epileptogenic foci: A pilot study - Shejoy PJoshua

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Allied Neurosciences Award paper

9:24 Three- dimensional modelling of the human brain: Connectionist and solid statemodeling for the human cerebrum - Vikas V

9:36 Comparative evaluation of MRS and SPECT in patients with mild to modrate headinjury - Sivasshanmugam Dhandapani

9:48 Papez Circuit and adjoining limbic system: Analysis of anatomy by fiber dissectiontechnique - A. H Shah

Best Paper in Neurosurgery

Chairpersons: Anirudh Purhoit, K Shankar

10:00 Quality of life following vestibular schwannoma surgery for large and giant tumors-A prospective study - Mazda Turel

10:12 Does Bony Hyperostosis in intracranial meningiomas signify tumors invasion? ARadio-pathologic study - Nishant Goyal

10:24 Why Stem cell therapy fails to produce clinical results in chronic spinal cordinjury? - Yanish Bhanot

Neuro-Oncology Award Paper

10:36 Intraoperative optical imaging in neuro-oncology –Raman spectroscopicdifferentiation of gliomas, an ex vivo study - Aliasgar V Moiyadi

10:48 Does expression of IGFBP isoforms define anaplastic astrocytoma as a distinctmolecular entity - Aniruddh A Kulkarni

Cost Effective Management Award Paper

11:00 Intraoperative Ventriculo-stomographic evaluation of endoscopic CSF diversionand flow restoration procedures - Deepak kumar Singh

11.15 – 12.15 Presidential OrationChairpersons : KekiTurel, Atul GoelIntroduction : Sanjaya BehariOrator : V K Jain

Atlanto-axial Dislocation

12.15 – 13.30 Lunch and poster session

Poster Session - IChairpersons: TBA

Multicystic Oligodendroglioma with calvarial destruction : A case report - Ajay BajaiMultiple Tanycytic ependymomas in spinal cord - A case report - K V KartikeyanClinico-surgical profile of patients with thalamic gliomas: An institutional experience of 38 cases - Sumit ThakarSupratentorial intraparenchymal ependymoma in an adult - A rare case report - N SaravananPrimary cerebellar glioblastoma multiforme in adults - A retrospective study - Ansari Khursheed Ahmad EGliosarcoma: A Clinicopathological study - Subhas Kantil KonarImage Guided Catheter Placement in recurrent glioma for targeted therapy at AIIMS - A. K. MahapatraClinical Study of Thalamic Glioma- A Preliminary report - Harish kumar ojha

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Isolated intracranial Rosai Dorfman Disease mimicking mutlicentric meningioma-Case Report - N ArunkumarCommon Clinico-radiological scenario but unusual disease - Rosai-Dorfman disease:Experience from a tertiary levelneuroscience center - Manish RajanHistopathological analysis of cerebellopotine angle tumors - Mohini J. DaveA rare case of Primary CP angle melanoma- A case report - B. HayagrivaraoA case report of solitary plasmacytoma in cranial vault - G.RajkumarIntradiploic cavernous haemangioma of skull mimicking an intraosseous meningioma - Ashis Patnaik84 cases of various histological types of intra cranial meningiomas were treated durning period 2006-2011 in thedepartment of neurosurgery, KGH Visakhapatanam - Babji Syam kumarSupratentorial extradural hematoma secondary to lumbar subarachnoid drain in a patient with pituitary adenoma:casereport and review of literature - Aniruddha T JRecurrent spontaneous CSF Rhinorrhoea - Rohit BalasubramanianAutomation in neurosurgical practice - K. Vishnu PrasadPost traumatic headache in mild head injury-Analysis of Predicitve factors - Thange Thrirupathi thanga VCerebral haemodynamic changes after cranioplasty - Thange Thrirupathi thanga VSurgical Management of Chronic subdural hematoma :comparison between Surgical management of Chronic subduralhematoma : single burrhole closed drain technique and conventional double burrhole technique - Prabhuraman K‘Everted’ Fracture Skull - Srikant Balasubramaniam

Integrated online portal for AIIMS Trauma centre: Potential to improve patients satisfaction on the ground - DeepakAgarwalCombined of spine and chest injury-Our experience - Krishan Kumar YadavManagement of frontal bone fractures - Jagadeesh V MorabA rare case of Moya Moya disease Para Insular hemispherotomy : description of a new modification of hemispherotomy- Kanwaljeet GargA rare recurrent sphenoid sinus lesion in a case of Carney Complex - Ramesh A.SRole of neuroendoscopy in agenesis of corpus callosum with interhemispheric cyst:A case report - Kodeeswaran MEndoscopic third Ventriculostomy: Climbing the steep learning curve - Kaushik SilEndoscopic third Ventriculostomy for Dany Walker malformation - Chhitiji SrivastavaCranial endoscopic interventions in early childhood: Intial experience - Sivasshanmugam DhandapaniA case report of surgical management of large occipital encephalocele in 3 year old female child - G. RajkumarProfile of patients with Split cord malformations - M Manoranjitha kumariComparison of total versus partial revision of ventriculoperitoneal shunt failures - Manjulata KumawatEpilepsy surgery in pediatric population: A retrospective study from a tertiary care hospital in a developing countryalong with assessment of quality of life - Shejoy P JoshuaSuprasellar Pilocytic astrocytoma variants in pediatric population - An aggressive disease? - Jagath Lal GRare pediatric brain tumors with unusual presentation : A series of 5 patients - Rakesh RanjanCongenital hind brain herrniation (chiari1 malformation ): Its Management - Basant Kumar BaishyaJoubert syndrome and related disorders (JSRD): Clinical and imaging observations in seven patients - Bindu P. S

13.30 – 14.30 Prof. Ramamurthi OrationChairpersons : V K Jain, Keki TurelIntroduction : Basant MisraOrator : Giovanni Broggi

Trigeminal Neuralgia : all strategies of treatment?

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Concurrent Afternoon Sessions Neurosurgery: Congenital and Pediatric Hall 114.30 – 16.30 (8mins talk+ 2mins discussion)

Chairpersons: Balasubramaniam, S Chatterjee, Ajay Sharma

14.30 Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Observation in 43 patients of Neuronal ceriodlipofuscinosis (NCL): NIMHANS experience - Sanjib Sinha

14.40 Occipital subtorcular encephaloceles:Anatomic & surgical considerations - ArvindKumar Srivastava

14.50 Review of utility of ventriculosubgaleal shunt in children -an institutional experience- Sandeep W Iratwar

15.00 Endoscopic third ventriculostomy-An alternative in Arnold Chiari malformationwith hydrocephalus and syrinx - J.P Alappat

15.10 Midline Craniofacial Dysraphism - Ajay Sharma15.20 Rotatory atlantoaxial subluxations: experience of 12 cases - Sandip Chatterjee15.30 Trans-oral approach to CV junction: analysis of 28 consecutively managed patients

over 3 years - Sandeep Mohindra15.40 Management of supra tentorial malignant tumors in children: Institutional

experience - Ashis Patnaik15.50 Surgical management of lumbosacral lipoma with or without spinal dysraphism –

Ajay Bajaj16.00 Syringomyelia/Arnold Chiari and Scoliosis - Raghavendra S

Concurrent Afternoon Sessions: Neurosurgery Skull Base Hall 214.30 – 16.30 (8mins talk+ 2mins discussion)

Chairpersons: Suresh Nair, Ketan Bulsara

14.30 Management of meningiomas around the optic nerve and visual outcome -Rajneesh Kachhara

14.40 Anterior Clinoidal meningiomas: Functional outcome after microsurgical resection- Suresh Sankhla

14.50 Transciliary Keyhole Craniotomy for meningiomas of anterior fossa and parasellarregion - Lt.Col. Hajinder S Bhatoe

15.00 Surgical management of Cavernous sinus hemangiomas - Challenges and pitfalls-Dwarakanath Srinivas

15.10 Surgical management of Acoustic Schwannomas- Journey of an Institute - LokendraSingh

15.20 Factors Contributing to Facial Nerve preservation in vestibular schwannoma surgery- an experience over 210 cases - M. Ganesh Kumar

15.30 Modified far lateral approach -safe alternative approach to lesions of foramenmagnum - Kannepalli Venkata Laxmi Narasinga Rao

15.40 Surgical Experience with skull base paragangliomas - Suresh Nair15.50 Intracranial epidermoids : Unusual complications encountered after micro-

neurosurgical excision - Hemant Bhartiya16.00 Outcomes in the management of petroclival meningiomas in the Skull base Era -

Ketan Bulsara16.20 Surgery for pineal region tumors - Manas Panigrahi

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Concurrent Free paper session: Neurotrauma Hall 314.30 – 16.30 (8mins talk+ 2mins discussion)

Chairpersons: A K Mahapatra, B A Chandramoule14.30 Need of organizing neurotrauma services in Nepal - Amit Thapa14.40 Analysis of abnormal CT findings in head injury patients with GCS 15- Our

Institutional experience - Kodeeswaran M14.50 Fronto Orbital reconstruction in craniofacial Trauma - our experience -

N Saravanan15.00 A study of visual evoked potential in traumatic optic neuropathy - N Raghunathan15.10 Functional recovery in pupil dilated head trauma patients - S.M Anil15.20 TNF alpha levels and its gene polymorphism in prognostication of head injury -

Subodh Raju15.30 Endocrine dysfunction after traumatic brain injury - Arindom Kakati15.40 Changes in cognitive and neurological functions in patients undergoing cranioplasty

for large craniectomy defects - Sanjay Teelala15.50 Burr hole vs Twist drill craniostomy for chronic SDH: A Prospective blinded

randomized study - Mallika Sinha16.00 Introducing the Cranial perforator-introducer: analysis of usage in 60 consecutive

patients of Chronic Sudural Hematoma - Sunil Kumar Singh16.10 Membranectomy with subgaleal negative pressure drain -safe and effective method

in treatment of recurrent chronic sub dural haematomas - Hari PrakashChakravarthy

16.20 Rate of reoperation in patients with chronic subdural hematoma after burrholeevacuation without a subdural drain - Navneet Singla

16.30 Treatment of Chronic Subdural Hematoma: An alternative approach - PradeepBharti

16.40 Cranioplasty using Malis Titanium Mesh and Methylmethacyrlate - P.R Rajkumar

Concurrent Afternoon Free Paper Sessions: Neurology and Allied Hall 414.30 – 16.30 (8mins talk+ 2mins discussion)

Chairpersons: Gaurie Devi, V V Radhakrishnan, Lt. Col Gorthi

14.30 A study of long term effects of first line antiepileptic drugs on serum Lipid profile- Navneet Singh

14.40 Clinical findings of tongue and its function in patients with sporadic amyotrophiclateral sclerosis (ALS) - A. Nalini

14.50 A Comparative study of patients of Parkinson’s disease with or without psychosis- Pramod Kr. Pal

15.00 Profile of patients with migraine: A community based urban and rural populationof India - Girish Baburao Kulkarni

15.10 Profile of sleep distrubance in Guillain Barre syndrome: A prospetive questionnairebase study - A.B. Taly

15.20 Role of simvastatin in prevention of vasospasm and improving functional outcomeafter aneurysmal sub-prospective, randomized,double-blind, placebo-controlledpilot trail - Sumit Sinha

15.30 Association of post stroke blood pressure and functional neurological outcome(observational analytical study) - Lt. Col. Sankar Prasad Gorthi

15.40 Clinical, neuropsychological and imageological spectrum of vascular dementia ata tertiary care centre in South India - Ravi Yadav

15.50 Clinical infection in the face of negative cultures- Utility of Empirical Antibioticsin Neurosurgery ICU at Level 1 Trauma Centre - Yashpal Singh Rathore

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16.00 Estimation of cord factor antigen mycobacterium tuberculosis in intracranialtuberculoma - V.V Radhakrishnanan

16.10 Susceptibility of Cryptococcus neoformans isolated from cases of cryptococcalmeningitis to antifungals - a pilot study from a tertiary care neurocentre ofSouth India - S. Nagarathna

16.20 Granulomatous hypophysitis: Report of four cases - Nilay Biswas16.30 Limbic encephalopathy: Problems and prospects - S. R Chandra16.40 Clinical and Radiological profile and therapeutic outcome of tumefactive

Demyelination in 26 patients -NIMHANS Experience - Madhu N16.30 – 16.50 Afternoon Tea Break

Common Hall: “How I do it session” Video session16.50 – 18.00 (7mins each, 10 presenters)

Chairperson: Atul Goel

16.50 Variations in the resection of hippocampus in people with drug resistant temporallobe epilepsy - Malla Bhaskara Rao

16.57 “Complex aneurysm surgery” - B K Misra17.04 ‘’Basilar top anuerysm” - Sarat Chandra17.11 MVD: Various types of vascular compression - C E Deopujari17.18 “Seventh nerve preservation in various types of Acoustic Neuromas - Suresh Nair17.25 “Anterior transpetrosal Dolence- Kawase Rhomboid approach - Ashish Suri17.32 Jugular foramen paraganglioma - Manas Panigrahi17.39 “Neurenteric Cyst at the cervical medullary Junction - K Sridhar17.46 ‘Giant’ intramedullary Tumors - Keki Turel17.53 Botulinum Toxin for Hemifacial spasm - Nirmal Surya

Day 2 - 17th December 2011 (Saturday)

Concurrent Morning Seminar Hall 108.00 – 09.00(15mins talk + 5mins discussion)

Chairperson: Manas Panigrahi

08:00 The role of endoscopy in intracranial hypertension - Michelangelo Gangemi08:20 Endoscopic treatment of colloid cysts - Umberto Godano08:40 Endoscopic management of Intracranial Cyst - C E Deopujari

Concurrent Morning Seminar Hall 208.00 – 09.00(15mins talk + 5mins discussion)

Chairperson: Lokendra Singh

08.00 The unilateral approach for the removal of intradural spinal schwannomas andmeningiomas - Alfredo Pompili

08.20 Intramedullary Spinal cord tumors - Antonio Santoro08.40 Photography and Human Brain - Sandip Chatterjee

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Concurrent Morning Seminar Hall 308.00 – 09.00 (15mins talk + 5mins discussion)

Chairperson: Indira Devi

08.00 A Clinical study on lumboscaral plexus injury - Debora Garozza

08.20 TBA

08.40 TBA

Concurrent Free paper session 1: Vascular 1 Hall 109.00 – 10.10

Chairpersons: Basant Misra, Ashish Suri

09.00 Microvascular anastomatic techniques in cerebrovascular surgery- Paritosh Pandey

09.10 High flow radial artery bypass as treatment of “growing” giant aneurysms- Atul Goel

09.20 Cerebral Revascularization: Our Experience - B.K Misra09.30 Preoperative planning for arteriovenous malformations of the brain: CISS 3d is a

neurosurgeon’s best friend - Gopalakrishnan M S09.40 Microsurgery for large hypertensive intracerebral hematomas - M.R Balasenthil

Kumaran09.50 Analysis of surgical results for hypertensive intrparenchymal bleeds-trans-sulcal

microsurgical evacuation - R. C Mishra

Concurrent Free paper session 1 Neurosurgery Spine 1 Hall 209.00 – 10.10

Chairpersons: V Rajshekhar, S Sankhla

09.00 Developmental pattern of the posterior osteophytes in cervical disc disease-correlation of clinico-radiological-intraoperative microscopic-histopathologicalcharacteristics - U.S.Srinivasan

09.10 Significance of type of MR signal changes on prediciting outcome after surgery inpatients with cervical spondylotic myelopathy - V. Rajshekhar

09.20 Multilevel oblique corpectomy for cervical spondylotic myelopathy preservessegmental motion - Ari Chacko

09.30 Multilevel Cervical compressive myelopathy: comparison of three different operativetechniques - Muthu Kumar

09.40 Surgical management of cervical OPLL:Experience with various surgical proceduresand their outcome in a single neurosurgery unit - Bhaskar Naidu P

09.50 Posterior cervical laminoforaminotomy for cervical radiculopathy - follow up study- Raj S. Chandran

10:00 Microscopic posterior cervical laminoforminotomy and discectomy for single levellateral cervical disc prolapse-surgical outcomes and results - Satyajit Das

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Concurrent Free paper session: Neuro Oncology 1 Hall 309.00 – 10.10

Chairpersons: Rakesh Jalali, Sarla Das, Vani Santosh

09.00 Profile of metastatic brain tumors- the incidence, imaging features and factorsaffecting survival - K Madhu Suthan

09.10 Long term survival in GBM patients following RT and Temozolomide-results fromthe largest prospective cohort treated with standard uniform adjuvant therapyfrom India - Arivazhagan

09.20 First Indian outcome data of newly diagnosed GBM-O(Gliobastoma witholigodendroglial component ) treated prospectively with radiotherapy andtemozolomide - Rakesh Jalali

09.30 Open label-dose confirmation study of interstitial 131i-chTNT-1/B Mab for thetreatment of recurrent glioblastoma at first relapse: phase IIb study interimresults - Deepak Gupta

09.40 Loss of heterozygosity in meningiomas - Geeta Chacko09.50 A Clinico -Pathological study of an uncommon variant of meningiomas : Chordoid

Meningiomas - Nishant S10:00 An Intraoperative Guide in Neurosurgical practice -squash Cytology - our experience

- S. Jothi Kumar10:10 – 10:30 Tea Break

10.30 – 11.30 Prof. Baldev Singh OrationChairpersons : V K Jain, Keki TurelIntroduction : TBAOrator : Yong-Kwang Tu

Surgery of cavernous sinus lesions

11.30 – 1.30 Special Symposium Peripheral Nerve Surgery Hall 1

Chair Persons: B.S. Das, Eucardo Fernandes

Management of Lumbosacral Plexeus Lesions - Debora Gorrezi , ItalyManagement of peripheral nervesheath tumors – Jose, BrazilUtility of nerve conduction studies in peripheral nerve surgery - Da Houlden, Toronto CanadaNewer technics in teaching dissection - MS Gopalakrishna, JIPMER, PondicherryImaging the peripheral nerves - Dhananjaya I Bhat, NIMHANS, BangaloreCurrent status and future trends inperipheral nerve injury – Rajeev Midha, Calgery, Canada

11.30 – 1.30 Neuro Critical Care Symposium Hall 2

Newer Challenges in the management of TBI? - V Bhadri NarayanPrognosticating neurological recovery after cardiac arrest in the Neuro ICU? - Mary AbrahamMultimodal monitoring in the ICU? Will it change outcome - G.S. Umamahaeswara RaoSafety in Neurocritical Care – How to improve practices? – Anil Parakh

1:30 – 2:30 Lunch and Poster

Poster Session – II Chairpersons: TBA

Dilemmas and challenges in the management of a neonate of Adams-Oliver syndrome with exsanguinating infected

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apiasis cutis lesion - Sandeep W IratwarGullain-Barre Syndrome -rehabilitation outcome, residual deficits and requirement of lower limb orthosis for locomotionat one year follow –up - Anupam GuptaAtypical presentations of craniospinal tuberculosis - An Institutional experience - Vemula venkata ramesh ChandraEar Lobe chondritis as the presenting feature of leprosy with concomittant multiple neurocysticercosis: A case report -Ramesh ChaurasiaLeprotic ulnar nerve Abscess: A case report - Manish SinghSurgical Management of spinal tuberculosis - Pari KodaiarasanAnalysis of 82 patients of spinal tuberculosis: To evaluate the clinical presentation, diagnosis, treatment, follow-up andout come - Amit KapoorIntra medullary spinal cord abscess of unknown origin-a case report - Raj S. ChandranAnterior Reduction of locked facet -surgical technique feasibility case study - Banu Prakash A SManagement of multilevel non contiguous spine fractures- personal experience - Pari KodaiarasanSpinal Arachnoid cysts-NIMHANS experience - Gunal VAn Intraoperative microscopic study of the formation of posterior osteophytes in cervical disc disease - U.S.SrinivasanSyrinx formation secondary to spinal anethesia - Two Cases - Rameshwar Nath ChaurasiaThe Winking owl sign -the radiology of lumbar aneurysmal bone cyst - Venkata Siva RamaSurgery of extensive ependymoma of spinal cord - Pradipta TripathyAneurysmal bone cyst of spine- an overview - S. SivakumarA Rare twin surgery - case report - Jothi KumarDorsal intramedullary Subependymoma- A RARE CASE REPORT WITH LITERATURE REVIEW - H.M Baba Dhoulath KhanDorsal calcified spinal meningiomas - M. R Balasenthil KumaranSpinal extra dural Arachnoid cyst masquerading as obstetric brachial plexus palsy(OBPP)- A Case Report - K. SivakumarAnterior Cervical Discectomy under Spinal Anaesthesia - M. Ganesh KumarSymptomatic ventrolateral proatlas anomly-Rare and under recognized cause of Chiari malformation with hindbrainherniation - Hrishikesh SarkarOccipito cervical fusion: A novel approach using occipital condylar screws - Snighda SahaUnilateral C1-C2 Posterior screw stabilization - Bharath RRole of Domiciliary ventilation in rehabilitation of neurological patients with chronic respiratory insufficiency - MonicaSahdev TandonPhysiotherapy in Backache : outcome at one year - Amit ThapaA Cadaveric Micro-anatomic study of intra-fascicular topography of brachial plexus - Sumit Sinha

Concurrent Free paper session 1: Vascular Hall 114.30 – 16.30 (8mins talk+ 2mins discussion)

Chairpersons: Kishore Choudhary, Ravi Mohan Rao

14.30 Management of unusual cases in the Cerebrovascular/Skull base surgery era –Ketan Bulsara

14.50 Does intraoperative rupture determine the outcome of surgery for intracranialaneurysms? -Dhaval Shukla

15.00 Anterior circulation aneurysms -10 years - Rajeev M P15.10 Supraorbital Keyhole technique for clipping of anterior circulation aneurysms -

Sanjiv Sinha15.20 Minicranio-orbitotomy keyhole approach through eyebrow incision for ruptured

anterior cerebral circulation aneurysms - Sarat Chandra15.30 Distal anterior cerebral artery aneurysms: Advantages of bifrontal basal anterior

interhemispheric approach over unilateral approach - Rajesh Chhabra

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15.40 M2 segment aneurysms- A retrospective Analysis of clinical features and thesurgical outcome - Sathia Prabhu

15.50 Posterior inferior cerebellar artery aneurysms -An institutional series - ManishGanesh Pai

16.00 Endovascular Treatment of posterior circulation Aneurysms - A. K Gupta16.10 Multiple anerysums : the Turin experience - Alessandro Ducati

Concurrent Free paper session 2 Spine Hall 214.30 – 16.30 (8mins talk+ 2mins discussion)

Chairpersons: Deepu Banerjee, S Sampath

14.30 Treatment of basilar invagination by atlanto-axial joint distraction and lateralmass fixation - Krishna Prabhu

14.40 Interspinous wiring for cervical spine flexion injuries - Baylis Vivek Joseph14.50 Surgical management of traumatic sub axial cervical spine injury: Our experience

- Nandigama Pratap kumar15.00 Safety of anterior approach for thoracolumbar spinal lesion - Vyom Bhargava15.10 Modified Postero lateral Trans-pedicular Extrapleural Approach to achieve

circumferential fusion for pathologies - Kanwaljeet Garg15.20 Lumbar Spinous process split laminectomy - Deepu Banerji15.30 Advantages of posterior Lumbar interbody Fusion(PLIF) using Moss-Miami pedicular

screws system, cages with autologous bone grafts - Yogesh Baliram Vargantwar15.40 Minimal access transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion for lumbar listhesis -

Nitin Garg15.50 Outcome following posterior lumbar interbody fusion (PLIF) and transforaminal

lumbar interbody fusion(TLIF): A prospective study - Alok Ranjan16.00 Spinal Instrumentation:Complication Avoidance and management - Omar Bachh16.10 Past-present -Future of spinal fusion: Dynamic stabilization of a spine - a

biomechanical possibility - Banu Prakash A S16.20 “Development of a Neuroma in continuity injury model in rodents” - Rajiv Midha

Concurrent Free paper session 1 Endoscopy and Recent Advances Hall 314.30 – 16.30 (8mins talk+ 2mins discussion)

Chairpersons: C E Deopujari, H. Bhartiya, Malla Bhaskara Rao

14.30 Strategy planning in appropriate management of spontaneous CSF fistulae - SDevaprasad

14.40 Role of endoscopic third ventriculostomy(ETV) in shunt failure: Freedom fromshunt - Daljit singh

14.50 Initial experience with endoscopic side cutting aspiration system in pureneuroendoscpic excision of large intraventricular tumors - Aaron Mohanty

15.00 Endonasal Transphenoidal Resection of Pituitary Tumors- Our Experience -N.K Venkataramana

15.10 Neuroendoscopic management of Midline skull base Lesions: Our Experience -Shailesh AV Rao

15.20 Experience with 50 Cases of expanded endoscopic skullbase approach - ManishVaish

15.30 Resection of malignant brain tumors : Combining approach with 5-aminolevulinicacid and neuronavigation image guidance – Natale Francaviglia

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15.50 Intraoperative Motor Evoked Potential monitoring in surgeries for gliomas in thevicinity of the motor cortex - Dalvin Thomas

16.00 Corpus callosotomy for intractable Epilepsy: An Institutional experience -Rajneesh Misra

16.10 Surgery for temporal lobe epilepsy - M. Bhaskara Rao16.20 Outcome of extra temporal epilepsy surgery and hemispherectomy after evaluation

with a non-invasive protocol - S. Sita Jayalakshmi16.30 Hypothalamic hamartomas-is it worthwhile to be aggressive? - Navneet Kumar

Singh

Concurrent Free paper session Brain Tumor and vascular Hall 414.30 – 16.30 (8mins talk+ 2mins discussion)

Chairpersons: N Venkataramana, Anaudh Balasurbramaniam

14.30 Transcranial surgery for pituitary adenomas- R. Pratheesh14.40 Bliss and Anguish in the management of Craniopharyngiomas - Jaspreet Singh

Dil14.50 Posterior Fossa Meningiomas - Kapu Ravindranath15.00 Posterior Fossa Meningiomas :”Our Experience” - Vernon Vello15.10 Atypical meningiomas : prognostic implications of clinicalpathological features -

Mohammed Abdul Majaid15.20 Meningeal hemangiopericytomas - a review of 21 cases - Akshay Shrirang Patil15.30 Giant Cerebellepontine Angle tumors: an institutional experience of 50 Cases -

Rajesh Kumar Barooah15.40 Microsurgery and gamma knife radiosurgery for vestibular schwannoma: A Balanced

approach - Rahul Ved15.50 A single institutional series of intracranial teratomas - Arun Baba16.00 Cerebral Aneurysms in a Charitable referral Hospital - A single neurosurgeon’s

experience - Ananthan R16.10 Fluorescence in Neurosurgery: An essential asset - Rahul Gupta16.20 Intraoperative role of microscope integrated near infrared indocyanine green

videoangiography in aneurysm patients - Warade Abhilit Gajanan RaoDay 3 - 18th December 2011 (Sunday)

Concurrent Morning Seminar Hall 108.00 – 09.00 (10mins talk + 5mins discussion)

Chairpersons: S D Lad

08.00 Management of patients with severe traumatic brain injury guided by intracranialpressure monitoring: personal experience (TBI) - Lucias Benvenuti

08.15 Infratentorial intracranial pressure monitoring in neurosurgery: is it useful? -Marco Fontanella

08.30 ICP Monitoring –A boon or bane - Kishore Choudhari08.45 Decompression craniectomies: status of the art (TBI) - Franco Servadei

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Concurrent Morning Seminar Hall 208.00 – 09.00 (15mins talk + 5mins discussion)

Chairperson: Sarat Chandra

08.00 Percutaneous Kyphoplasty: surgical technique and follow-up in a consecutive seriesof 387 cases of type A traumatic spinal fractures – Natale Francaviglia

08.20 The Use of posterior motion preservation interlaminar device for lumbar DDD -Giancarlo Guzziardi

08.40 TBA

Concurrent Morning Seminar Hall 308.00 – 09.00 (15mins talk + 5mins discussion)

Chairperson: Indira Devi08.00 A Clinical study on lumboscaral plexus injury - Debora Garozza08.20 Decompression craniectomies: status of the art (TBI) - Alessandro Ducati08.40 Botulinum Toxin for facial pain and spasm - Nirmal Surya

Common Session History of Neurosciences09.00 – 10.10 (8mins talk+ 2mins discussion)

Chairpersons: T Hegde, Ramakrishna Eswaran09.00 San Servolo Summer School - M. Bhaskara Rao09.10 W. James Gardner : An Inspiration for all Neurosurgeons - Kapu Ravindranath09.20 Dr. Nicholaus Steno- The Great lecturer on the anatomy of the brain - Anil Pande09.30 The Genius of Nikola Tesla &Neurosurgery - Krishan Kumar Yadav09.40 Jean -Martin Charcot, who shaped Neurology - Sanjay Pandey09.50 The Era of preventive Neurosurgery- Are we there yet? - Omar Bachh10.00 Neurosurgery at JPN Apex Trauma Centre, AIIMS-The journey till now - Deepak

Agarwal

10.10 -10.30 Tea break

Concurrent Free paper session 1 Spine Hall 110.30 – 12.20 (8mins talk+ 2mins discussion)

Chairpersons: K Sridhar, Daljit Singh10.30 Surgery for Non Dysraphic tumors of the Conus - Anil Pande10.40 Intradural spinal tumors: The Armed Forces Service Hospital Series -

Sundaravadhanan Shashivadhanan10.50 Intradural Extramedullary spinal cord Tumors - A series of 56 cases - P.R Rajkumar11.00 Application of minimally invasive spine surgery (MISS) in selected patients with

spinal tumors - Sanjay Rajan11.10 Endoscopic excision of intradural extra medullary tumors of spinal cord-outcome

analysis - Vidya Sagar G11.20 Endoscope in neuro-spinal Axis: Initial experience in 165 cases - T. Narasimha

Rao11.30 Spinal extradural arachnoid cysts - Vemula Venkata Ramesh Chandra11.40 Endoscopic surgery in arachnoid cysts in patients upto 18 years of age - Vivek

Tandon

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11.50 Unilateral Approach for bilateral microsurgical internal decompression of Lumbarspinal canal stenosis (LCS) - Analysis of results - Shibashish Battacharjee

12.00 Urodynamic study in patients with lumbar disc prolapse - K.K Bansal12.10 Spinal TB: Management Protocol - Saurabh Sharma

Concurrent Free paper session 1 Stereotaxy, Radiosurgery Hall 210.30 – 11.30 (8mins talk+ 2mins discussion)

Chairpersons: Milind Sankhe, V P Singh10.30 Deep brain stimulation for Parkinson’s disease - Milind S. Sankhe10.40 Dosimetric comparison of Linac based (Brain LAB) and robotic radiosurgery

(cyberknife) stereotactic radiosurgery system plan for acoustic schwannomas -Debnarayan Dutta

10.50 Experience with BRA-K (FN) “VIRTUOSO UNIVERSA” CT&MRI assisted stereotacticsystem - Deepak Patel

11.00 G.K Therapy for AVM: Primary vs Secondary GK Therapy - A.K Mahapatra11.10 Clinical and radiological outcome following gamma knife radiosurgery in patients

with brain arteriovenous malformations-A prospective study - Raghunath A11.20 Clinical and radiological outcome of patients with vestibular schwannoma following

Gamma knife radiosurgery - Ambekar Sudheer

Concurrent Free paper session 1 Miscellaneous Hall 310.30 – 11.30 (8mins talk+ 2mins discussion)

Chairpersons: R N Bhattacharya, Rajneesh Kachara

10.30 Brain Death Certification -Cadaver organ transplantation - Tamil Nadu model- Asuccess story - Rohit Balasubramanian

10.40 The Microneurosurgical learning curve: A structured analysis and trainingimplications - George C Vilanilam

10.50 Knowledge based clinical database: footprint of artificial intelligence inneurosurgery- Naseer Mohammad

11.00 Surgical anatomy of high cervical anterior retropharyngeal approach to the cervicalspine – B Hayagrivarao

11.10 Can the position of the vertebral artery be predicted on a large lateral view X-rayof the craniovetebral junction? A radiological – anatomy study – Nupur Pruthi

11.20 Utility assessment of DW-MRI in management of brain Abscess – Vikas Bhardwaj11.30 Assessment of ultrasound as a diagnostic modality for detecting cervical spine

fractures in head injured patients – Deepak Agarwal11.40 A study of cerebrospinal fluid dynamics in idiopathic intracranial hypertension – P

Magesh11.50 The silicone pattie – Vivek Agrawal12.00 Sciatic nerve regeneration in rats with cold preserved allografts with and without

wrapping of human amniotic membrane: functional and histological – ChandanMohanty

12.20 – 01.00 Valedictory Function

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Agenda for the Annual General Body Meeting to be held on 17th December 2011, 6.00p.m. at Bangalore during 60th Annual Conference of Neurological Society of India.

1. President calls the meeting to order.2. Minutes of EC meeting including Secretary’s Report.3. Changes to the Constitution and Byelaws4. Treasurer’s Report5. Editor’s Report6. CME Convener’s Report7. Webmaster’s Report8. Orators for next year conference9. 2013 Conference10. Results of elections11. Results of awards12. Presentation by Organizing Secretary of next conference13. Thanks to Organizing Secretary14. Any other matter.

National:1) Workshop on Brachial Plexus Injuries

Dates: December 9-11, 2011Organizer/Venue: AIIMS, New DelhiContact: Dr. Sumit Sinha, Associate Professor, Dept. of Neurosurgery, AIIMS, New [email protected], [email protected]

2) Neuropedicon 2012Dates: November 2-4, 2012Organizer/Venue: All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New DelhiContact: Dr. Deepak Gupta, [email protected]

International:

1) 2012 Japan India Neurosurgical Conference Dates: October 19-20, 2012Organizer/Venue: Osaka, JapanContact: Prof. Kenji Ohata, [email protected]

CONFERENCES

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MNS-29 BNS-62 GNS-43Dr. A V Medlery Dr. J V Bhushan Dr. D Ganesan

GNS-20 KA-137 MNS-19Dr. R. Rajendran Dr. P Sunil Kumar Dr. M Mohamed

MNS-32 PNP-23 PNP-25Dr. B P Mandal Dr. Lekha Pandi Dr. M D Patra

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