Dear friends,we are very glad and honored to mantainthe promised made at the end of thefirst edition of this meeting in November2013 in Venice.We are really honored to announce thatthis year the meeting is performed inconjunction with the Spine Section ofthe Italian Neurosurgical Society.We give welcome to the big and verydistinguished foreign speakers and alsoto the components of the spine section.We were able to keep an informalprogram overview of the meeting andwe hope that the participation of manyyoung neurosurgeons may be the chanceof stimulation and enrichment for theexpert colleagues.We are completely convinced that onlywith the past experience combined withthe active participation of all colleagues.This is a message for all everyone cangrow and will be realized a successfulevent!See you in Florence

Franco Guida Giancarlo Guizzardi

LOOKING AT THE FUTUREOF SPINE SURGERYBASED ON PAST EXPERIENCEFlorence • ItalyNovember 4th - 6th, 2015

PresidentsFranco Guida (Mestre, VE)Giancarlo Guizzardi (Firenze)

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Honorary PresidentsAlberto Delitala (Roma)Vincenzo Denaro (Roma)Special GuestFrancesco Tomasello (Messina)

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Scientific CommitteeAndrea Barbanera (Alessandria)Barbara Cappelletto (Udine)Raffaele de Falco (Pozzuoli, NA)Mauro Dobran (Ancona)Vito Fiorenza (Palermo)Luigi Genovese (Napoli)Piero Petrini (Città di Castello, PG)Carlo Ruosi (Napoli)Massimiliano Visocchi (Roma)Giovanni Vitale (Napoli)Vincenzo Vitiello (Napoli)

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14:30 Registration Open15:00 Welcome and Opening Ceremony15:15 1st Session SPINE DDD CONSERVATIVE/

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16:15-16:45 Meet the exhibitors • coffee time16:45 2nd Session CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT

OF THE LUMBAR BACK PAINInvited speakers

18:25 3rd Session REHABILITATION AND PHYSICALTHERAPY OF LUMBAR BACK PAIN

19:05 Lecture of a masterWolfgang Rauschning

19:50 "New Tuscany oil" Welcome Reception

08:30 4th Session SPINE DDD CONSERVATIVE/SURGICAL TREATMENT - part 2

Free papers09:50 5th Session MAGISTRAL LECTURES

Max Aebi - Michael Wang10:50-11:20 Meet the exhibitors • coffee time

11:20 6th Session LOOKING INSIDE THE DURAFree papers and invited speakers

13:15-14:00 Buffet light lunch14:0015:00 7th Session SPINE ENDOSCOPY

Invited speakers15:45 Round Table on Italian experience

17:00-17:20 Meet the exhibitors • coffee time17:20 8th Session SPINAL STENOSIS

Free papers and invited speakers19:00 9th Session MISCELLANEOUS

Free papers19:40 Adjourn21:00 Networking dinner

08:30 10th Session MISSFree papers and invited speakers

10:10 Special guestFrancesco Tomasello

10:30-10:50 Meet the exhibitors • coffee time10:50 Round Table: Flow Charts Validation11:40 11th Session NEUROMUSCOLAR SCOLIOSIS

Invited speakers13:30 Awards and Closing Remarks

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SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

14:30 Registration

15:00 Welcome and Opening CeremonyAlberto Delitala - SINch PresidentVincenzo Denaro - SICV&GIS PresidentFranco Guida - Meeting PresidentGiancarlo Guizzardi - Meeting President

15:15 1st Session16:15 SPINE DDD

CONSERVATIVE/SURGICALTREATMENT – part 1

Moderators:Giuseppe Maida (Occhiobello, FE, Italy)Maurizio Marcelli (Mestre, VE, Italy)

15:15 Endoscopic neuro-denervation-decompression. Analysis of 22 operated cases two years followupHéctor Salgado Rodríguez,P. Salgado Rodríguez (Sevilla, Spain)

15:25 Efficacia della stimolazione di campi nervosiperiferici (PNfS) sul dolore neuropatico spinalein pazienti paraplegiciGiampaolo Pinato1,2, Massimo Furnari1,Flavio Michielan2, Roberto Casale3, AlessandroGiorgianni4, Carlo Ori1, Ulderico Freo1(1Padova, 2Rovigo, 3Pavia, 4Pordenone; Italy)

15:35 Hidden spondylolisthesis: unrecognized cause ofLow Back Pain? Prospective study about the useof dynamic projections in standing and recumbentposition for the individuation of lumbar instabilityFabrizio Gregori, Alessandro Landi, NicolaMarotta, Roberto Delfini (Roma, Italy)

15:45 La microinstabilità lombare come problematicaclinica e medico-legale di enorme portata. Ipotesidi classificazione clinico-radiologica e algoritmodi trattamentoCristina Mancarella, Alessandro Landi,Vincenza Maiola, Fabrizio Gregori, E. Maccari,Nicola Marotta, Roberto Delfini (Roma, Italy)

15:55 Q&A

16:15 Meet the exhibitors • coffee time

Wednesday, November 4th, 2015

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

16:45 2nd Session18:25 CONSERVATIVE

TREATMENT OF THELUMBAR BACK PAIN

Moderators:Alberto Delitala (Roma, Italy)Vincenzo Denaro (Roma, Italy)

16:45 Epidemiological survey of the LBP in TuscanyPaolo Francesconi(Tuscany Regional Health Agency)

17:05 Psychological factors predictive ofchronic Low Back PainAnnalisa Suman (Firenze)

17:25 How to avoid the pitfallsRocco Quatrale (Mestre, VE)

17:45 Injections therapy for LBPCesare Bonezzi (Pavia)

18:05 Q&A

18:25 3rd Session19:50 REHABILITATION AND

PHYSICAL THERAPY OFLUMBAR BACK PAIN

Moderators:Alfredo Cigliano (Napoli, Italy)Roberto Donati (Cesena, Italy)

18:25 Rehabilitation Spine Center therapy:USA experienceRichard Fessler (Chigago, USA)

18:45 Manual therapy of LBPDominique Bonneau (Avignone, France)

19:05 Lecture of a masterThe microanatomy of the lumbar spineWolfgang Rauschning (Uppsala, Sweden)

19:30 Q&A

19:50 ‘New Tuscany oil’20:30 Welcome Reception in the Exhibition Area

Wednesday, November 4th, 2015

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SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMThursday, November 5th, 2015

09:50 5th Session10:50 MAGISTRAL LECTURES

Moderators:Franco Guida (Mestre, VE, Italy)Giancarlo Guizzardi (Firenze, Italy)

Introduction by the Moderators

09:50 Changes and Challenges of Scientific Publishing:the growth and increase of spine related journals-  a scientific blessing?Max Aebi (Berna, Suisse)

Introduction by the Moderators

10:20 Population aging and impact in spinal surgeryMichael Wang (Miami, USA)

10:50 Meet the exhibitors • coffee time

08:30 4th Session09:50 SPINE DDD

CONSERVATIVE/SURGICAL TREATMENT – part 2Moderators:Mario Di Silvestre (Bologna, Italy)Pier Paolo Nina (Napoli, Italy)

08:30 Studio prospettico multicentrico osservazionalenell’uso di impianto intravertebrale per iltrattamento delle fratture vertebrali dacompressione. Risultati di follow up a 24 mesiNatale Francaviglia (Palermo, Italy)

08:40 Complications in extreme lateral interbody surgeryJosip Buric, Domenico Bombardieri(Bologna, Italy)

08:50 Quantitative evaluation of neuroforaminal areafollowing extreme lateral interbody fusion withcage in peekMassimo Balsano, Alexandros Zachos,Giulia R. Mosele*, Carlo Doria* (Santorso, VI;*Sassari; Italy)

09:00 Kypoplasty in non surgical traumatic fractures ofthe thoraco-lumbar spinePier Paolo Nina, Vincenzo Vitiello, Luca Arpino(Napoli, Italy)

09:10 Stabilizzazione posteriore percutanea medianteviti transpeduncolari nelle fratture lombari e dellacerniera dorso-lombare (D12-L1).Nostra esperienza in 75 casiGiovanni Vitale, Assunta Punzo, R. Vitale,Domenico Di Maro, Pasquale Caiazzo(Napoli, Italy)

09:20 Total cervical disc replacement: considerationafter a decade of utilizationBarbara Cappelletto, Massimo A. Trevigne,Claudio Veltri, Fabrizia Giorgiutti (Udine, Italy)

09:30 Q&A8

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11:20 6th Session13:15 LOOKING INSIDE THE DURA

Moderators:Massimo De Bellis (Napoli, Italy)Ermanno Giombelli (Parma, Italy)

11:20 La chirurgia dei tumori primitivi intrarachidei inItalia alla fine dell'ottocento e nelle prime decadidel novecentoSebastiano Paterniti (Messina, Italy)

11:30 Le cisti sinoviali lombari: lesioni espansiveintracanalari rare. Aspetti clinici, diagnostici eterapeuticiArmando Rapanà, Alessandra Alfieri, Albertode Bellis, Enza De Rita, Stefano Parlato, AnielloLeonardo Caracciolo (Caserta, Italy)

11:40 Intradural extramedullary tumorsRoberto Delfini (Roma, Italy)

12:00 Surgical treatment of intramedullary tumorsNicolay Konovalov (Moscov, Russia)

12:20 Spine AV dural fistulas: the point of view of the…• Interventional radiologist Salvatore Mangiafico (Firenze, Italy)• Neurosurgeon Pietro Primo Versari (Alessandria, Italy)

13:00 Q&A

13:15 Lunch break

14:00 Industry Workshop15:00

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Workshop

14:00 Transforaminal Endoscopic Spine15:00 System: Hands-on

14:00 Introduction and overviewW. Ries – CEO Joimax GmbH

14:20 Tessys System hands-on session using the newEndotrainer Simulator

Workshop

14:00 Transpedicular elastic system for15:00 minimally invasive stabilization in

lumbar DDD

Coordinator: Giancarlo Guizzardi MD

20' surgical techniques10' results10' Q&A20' Best Practice on Sawbones

The purpose of the workshop is to suggest the correctindications and surgical techniques with an innovativesystem of elastic transpedicular screws in the treatmentof degenerative lumbar spine.

Sala PlenariaMichelangelo

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19:00 9th Session19:40 MISCELLANEOUS

Moderators:Andrea La Maida (Milano, Italy)Vincenzo Vitiello (Napoli, Italy)

19:00 Biomateriali: una buona alternativa all’osso autologoper la fusione vertebraleGiovanni Barbanti Bròdano,Francesco Lolli, Gianluca Giavaresi, Milena Fini,Stefano Bandiera, Alessandro Gasbarrini,Silvia Terzi, Riccardo Ghermandi, Lisa Babbi,Marco Girolami, Stefano Boriani (Bologna, Italy)

19:10 Artrodesi intersomatica lombare per via anteriore(ALIF) retro peritoneale nelle spondilolistesidegenerative lombari: la nostra esperienzaMichele Carandente, Luigi D’Amico, AgostinoBossone, Antonino Guarracino, Assunta Punzo*(Salerno, *Napoli; Italy)

19:20 Cortical bone trajectory in lumbar pedicle screwfixation: preliminary experienceFabio Cacciola, Giuseppe La Fata, FrancescoTomasello (Messina, Italy)

19:30 Evidence on interventional techniques fordiscogenic painJosip Buric (Bologna, Italy)

19:40 Adjourn

21:00 Networking dinner

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMThursday, November 5th, 2015

17:40 Thoracic DDD endoscopic treatmentRudolf Beisse (Tutzing, Germany)

18:05 Lumbar stenosis endoscopic treatmentSebastian Ruetten (Herne, Germany)

18:30 Natural history and surgical decision in lumbarspine stenosisAndrea Barbanera (Alessandria, Italy)

18:45 Q&A

15:00 7th Session17:00 SPINE ENDOSCOPY

Moderators:Maximilian Broger (Bolzano, Italy)Matteo Vitali (Alessandria, Italy)

15:00 30 years experience in endoscopic spinal surgery:evolution and state of the artHansjorg Leu (Zurigo, Suisse)

15:25 Endoscopic spine surgery: transforaminal approachto the spinal canalErik Traupe (Monaco, Germany)

15:45 Round Table Italian experience• Umberto Agrillo (Roma)• Patrizio Cervellini (Vicenza)• Stefano Ferraresi (Rovigo)• Natale Francaviglia (Palermo)• Gualtiero Innocenzi (Pozzilli, IS)• Lorenzo Paoli (Firenze)

16:25 Tips and Tricks for spine endoscopyHikmet Ulug (Istanbul, Turkey)

16:50 Q&A

17:00 Meet the exhibitors • coffee time

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17.20 8th Session19:00 SPINAL STENOSIS

Moderators:Massimo Balsano (Santorso, VI, Italy)Armando Rapanà (Caserta, Italy)

17:20 Outcome and complications in patients with singlelevel or multilevel lumbar spinal stenosisBarbara Cappelletto, Massimo A. Trevigne,Claudio Veltri, Edi Copetti, Fabrizia Giorgiutti(Udine, Italy)

17:30 Spinal lumbar stenosis in aged (over 80) people:review of a surgical seriesClaudio Irace (Milano, Italy)

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

08:30 10th Session10.30 MISS

Moderators:Roberto Assietti (Milano, Italy)Alessandro Landi (Roma, Italy)

08:30 Cortical bone trajectory screws prevent implantloosening in osteoporotic spinesKim Soon Oh, H. M. Tan (Penang, Malaysia)

08:40 Complicazioni in chirurgia vertebrale: conoscereper prevenire. Analisi di 917 casi trattati in treanniGiovanni Barbanti Bròdano, Jarkko Halme*,Alessandro Gasbarrini, Stefano Bandiera, SilviaTerzi, Riccardo Ghermandi, Lisa Babbi, MarcoGirolami, Stefano Boriani (Bologna, Italy; *Kuopio,Finland)

08:50 MIS in DDDLuca Papavero (Hamburg, Germany)

09:10 Minimal Invasive Spine Surgery: lesson learnt,actual state and perspectivesRichard Fessler (Chigago, USA)

09:30 MIS treatment of scoliosis in aging peopleMichael Wang (Miami, USA)

09:50 Q&A

Introduction by the Presidents10:10 Special guest Francesco Tomasello

Looking at the future of the intradural tumorswith the past experience

10:30 Meet the exhibitors • coffee time

10:50 Round Table11:40The Spine Section of the Italian NeurosurgicalSociety meet the foreign guests:Flow Charts Validation

11:40 11th Session13:00 NEUROMUSCOLAR

SCOLIOSIS

Moderators:Daniele Fabris Monterumici (Padova, Italy)Vincenzo Di Stefano (Treviso, Italy)

11:40 De novo scoliosis in aging peoplePier Paolo Mura (Cagliari, Italy)

12:00 Treatment of childhood scoliosis associatedwith spinal cord malformationsMarco Crostelli (Fiumicino, RM, Italy)

12:20 Congenital and acquired kyphosia with neurologicalinvolvement in childrenMarco Carbone (Trieste, Italy)

12:40 The neurosurgeon point of viewMaurizio Fornari (Milano, Italy)

13:00 Q&A

13:20 Compilazione del questionario di apprendimentoECM for Italian participants only

13:30 Awards for the 3 best Free Papersand Closing Remarks

Friday, November 6th, 2015

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