The 1st International Winter school
of Otology - Neurootology lateral skull base Microsurgery in Greece

Neurootology lateral skull base Microsurgery in Greece

6, 7 e 8 Febbraio 2004 Atene - Grecia

Honorary Presidents
Prof. and Chairman Desiderio Passali, President of IFOS (Siena, Italy)
Prof. Emmanuel Helidonis (Heraklion, Crete, Greece)
Asst. Prof. and Chairman, Eleftherios Ferekidis (Athens, Greece)
Presidents of the Congress
Prof. Mario Sanna (Piacenza-Rome, Italy)
Asst. Prof. Spiros Papaspirou (Athens, Greece)
Prof. and Chairman Aris Sismanis (Virginia, Usa)
General Secretary of the Congress
Dr. Dimitrios N. Gelis (Korinthos, Greece)
Scientific Technological Consultant
Asst. Prof. Georgios Velegrakis
Public Relations Governor
Teris P. Tsafos
Scientific Governors
Prof. Antonios Skevas, Prof. Panagiotis Goumas, Prof. Theocharis Apostolidis, Asst. Prof. Theofilos Iliadis, Asst. Prof. Nikos Simaskos, Asst. Prof. Anestis Psifidis, Konstantinos Oikonomou, Emmanuel Anagnostou
Organizing Committee
Ioannis Athanasopoulos, Giuseppe De Donato, Maurizio Falcioni, Evangelos Golas, Ilias Karapantzos, Georgios Kloutsos, Fernando Mancini, Aris Pagalos, Chariton Papadakis, Zissis Pappas, Alessandra Russo, Theodoros Sfikas, Abdelkader Taibah
Research Governor
Prof. Ioannis Daniilidis
Congress Secretariat
Nereus Congress and Conferences, Piraeus, Hellas (Greece)

Programma

Friday February 6, 2004
Surgical anatomy of the temporal bone Sismanis A.
Preoperative imaging in chronic ear surgery Falcioni M.
Middle Ear
Why small fenestra stapedotomy? Papaspirou S.
Revision stapedectomy Nikopoulos T.
Postoperative bone conduction after stapedotomy Marangos N.
Management of simple chronic otitis Papadakis C.
Myringoplasty De Donato G.
Ossicular chain reconstruction with cartilage Bacciu S., Pasanisi E. Bacciu A.
Management of middle ear cholesteatoma: state of the art Xenellis J.E.
Canal wall down tympanoplasty Mancini F.
Canal wall up tympanoplasty Taibah A.
Vestibular schwannoma
Vestibular schwannoma: preoperative evaluation Falcioni M.
Neurotological evaluation in relation to the size of vestibular schwannoma Gavalas G.
Decision making in vestibular schwannoma surgery Sismanis A.
Vestibular schwannoma: refinements in translabyrinthine approach Mancini F.
Monitoring of VIII cranial nerve in vestibular schwannoma surgery Piccirillo E.
Vestibular schwannoma: retrosigmoid approach with endoscopy Magnan J.
Vestibular schwannoma surgery: the price of hearing preservation Marangos N.
Cochlear implantation in vestibular schwannoma patients Aristegui M.
Hearing preservation in vestibular schwannoma surgery Sanna M.
Free papers

Saturday, February 7, 2004
The secrets of cochlear implants Kiratzidis T., Iliades I.
Cochlear implants in children Burdo S.
Facial nerve
Facial nerve palsy: anatomy and etiology Falcioni M.
Facial nerve monitoring in skull base surgery Piccirillo E.
Tumors of the facial nerve Piccirillo E.
Hemifacial spasm Magnan J.
Facial nerve treatment in lateral skull base Sanna M.
Reanimation techniques for facial paralysis Sismanis A.
Facial plastic rehabilitation Garofalo R.
Skull base
Meningo-encephalic herniation Aristegui M.
Petrous bone cholesteatoma De Donato G.
Anatomy of the infratemporal fossa Aristegui M.
Modified infratemporal type A and juxtacondylar approaches for paragangliomas: preservation of the middle ear Marangos N.
Management of tympano-jugular paragangliomas Sanna M.
Posterior fossa meningiomas management Taibah A.
Transpetrous approaches combined with orbito-zygomatic resection Sanna M.

Sunday, February 8, 2004
Auditory brainstem responses Burdo S.
Rationale of vertigo diagnosis Tufarelli D.
Miscellanea
Meniere disease and autoimmune ear disorders Sismanis A.
Evaluation and management of dizzy patients Tufarelli D.
Evaluation and management of tinnitus Sismanis A.
Evaluation of sensorineural hearing loss Papadakis C.
Cochlear implant: technical aspects in difficult cases Bacciu S., Pasanisi E., Vincenti V.
Cochlear implant in children: indications and results Burdo S.
Auditory brainstem implants Marangos N.


Lecturers

Mario Sanna (Piacenza-Rome)
Abdelkader Taibah (Piacenza-Rome)
Alessandra Russo (Piacenza-Rome)
Fernando Mancini (Piacenza-Rome)
Maurizio Falcioni (Piacenza-Rome)
Giuseppe De Donato (Piacenza-Rome)
Piccirillo Enrico (Piacenza-Rome)
Davide Tufarelli (Piacenza-Rome)
Raffaella Garofalo (Rome)
Paolo Piazza (Parma)
Miguel Aristegui (Madrid)
Jacques Magnan (Marseille)
Salvatore Bacciu (Parma)
Enrico Pasanisi (Parma)
Vincenzo Vincenti (Parma)
Andrea Bacciu (Parma)
Aris Sismanis (Virginia)

Topics

Otosclerosis - Chronic otitis - Cholesteatoma - Vertigo - Sensorineural hearing loss - Cochlear implants - Facial nerve palsy - Hemifacial spasm - Acoustic neurinoma - Glomus jugulare tumors - Petrous bone cholesteatoma - Posterior fossa meningiomas