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Welcome
to the Second EANS Course in Spinal Surgery
(Thoracolumbar Spine)
from 6th to 8th November in
Hotel Ambasador
***** Opatija - Croatia

 
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Indoor pool with heated sea water, Hotel Ambasador - Opatija
Villa Angelina, Opatija
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FACULTY
André Grotenhuis
Chairman EANS PGEC (Postgraduate Education Committee)

 
EANS PGEC Spine Committee

Guy Matgé
Miro Vukić
Adrian Casey
Jake Timothy
Bernhard Meyer

Richard Assaker
Jesus Lafuente
Wilco Peul
Joerg Meisel
Martina Messing

Félix Scholtes
Gilles Perrin
Rudolf Bertagnoli
Claudius Thomé

     
HANDS ON WORKSHOP TOPICS
DISCUSSION GROUPS
Chair: J. Lafuente
Chair: A. Grotenhuis + Faculty
  • Kyphoplasty
  • Pepicle Screws
  • Dynamic Stablisation
  • Artifical Disc
  • Neuronavigation (Stealth, Brainlab)
  • Injections (facet, nerve root, epidural, disc)
  • Corpectomy Spacers
  • Anterolateral fixation
  • Interspinous Spacers
1. Fractures
  • Burst
  • Chance
  • Complex #
2. Tumours
  • Neurofibromatosis
  • Metastasis (JC 3)
  • Primary bone tumours of the spine
  • Myeloma
3. Infectious
  • Discitis
  • TB
  • Metal work
4. Degenerative
  • Spondylolisthesis
  • Artificial Disc
  • Posterior fusion
  • JC 1 + 2 + 4

JOURNAL CLUB
included in discussion groups with students
presenting to their group with a chairman advisory role by faculty

1. Peul WC, van Houwelingen HC, van den Hout WB, Brand R, Eekhof JA, Tans JT, Thomeer RT, Koes BW; Leiden‐The Hague Spine Intervention Prognostic Study Group. Surgery versus prolonged conservative treatment for sciatica.
N Engl J Med. 2007 May 31; 356(22):2245‐56

2. Weinstein JN, Tosteson TD, Lurie JD, Tosteson AN, Hanscom B, Skinner JS, Abdu WA, Hilibrand AS, Boden SD, Deyo RA.
Surgical vs nonoperative treatment for lumbar disk herniation: the Spine Patient
Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT): a randomized trial. JAMA. 2006 Nov 22; 296(20):2441‐50.

3. Patchell RA, Tibbs PA, Regine WF, Payne R, Saris S, Kryscio RJ, Mohiuddin M, Young B. Direct decompressive surgical resection in the treatment of spinal cord compression caused by metastatic cancer: a randomised trial.
Lancet 2005 Aug 20‐26; 366 (9486):643‐8.

4. Thomé C, Zevgaridis D, Leheta O, Bäzner H, Pockler‐Schöniger C, Wöhrle J, et al: Outcome after less‐invasive decompression oflumbar spinal stenosis: a randomized comparison of unilateral laminotomy, bilateral laminotomy, and laminectomy. J Neurosurg Spine 3:129–141, 2005


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