EDUCATIONAL COURSE ON RADIOSURGERY

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FRIDAY 22 November 

09:00 – Session I – Basics
Moderator: Dr Chaou

  • Introduction. Pr Elkhamlichi, Pr Motti
  • Brief history of Radiosurgery. E. Motti
  • Technical aspects of Leksell Gamma Knife® ICONTM. D. Porcheron
  • Physics for Gamma Knife Radiosurgery. D. Porcheron
  • Fundamental differences between Gamma Knife and other Stereotactic Radiotherapy techniques (Linac etc.) M. Levivier
  • What is Radiosurgery and what is not Radiosurgery!!! E. Motti

10:30  Coffee break 

11:00 – Session II – Work Flow
Moderator: S. Ait Benali

  • Gamma Knife in practice: Workflow. Y. Arkha
  • Imaging for Radiosurgery: The Importance of quality. M. Jiddance & A. Melhaoui
  • Single dose vs Fractionation: Radiobiological differences, for which indications? A. Melhaoui

12:30  Lunch

14:00 – Session III  – Clinical Applications

  • Vascular Diseases. A. Melhaoui
  • Vestibular Schwannoma. J. Régis
  • Adenomas / Craniopharyngiomas. Y. Arkha
  • Meningiomas/others. P. Hanssens

16:00 Coffee break

16:15 – Session IV 

  • Malignant Tumors: Brain Metastasis and Gliomas. P. Hanssens
  • Trigeminal Neuralgia. M. Levivier
  • Tremor / Epilepsy. J. Régis
  • Brain Radiosurgery is a Neurosurgical Practice: there is no competition between Micro Neurosurgery and Radiosurgery. A. El Khamilichi

ELGKS MEETING

FRIDAY 22 November

16:30 – Registration opens
18:00 – Welcome reception at the Tour Hassan hotel

  • Introduction talk: Vision of the development of SRS in Africa. Pr El Khamlichi
  • Welcome address from Mr Niklas Kebbon, Swedish Ambassador

SATURDAY 23 November

07:45 Registration opens 

08:00 Introduction. Enrico Motti

08:30 – Session 1 – Stagged and hypofractionation
Moderators: Patrick Hanssen, Adyl Melhaoui

  • Survey. Patrick Hanssens
  • Brain metastases. Adyl Melhaoui
  • Volume Stagging when and how in AVM. Jeremy Rowe
  • Perioptic meningiomas: a multicentric study. Piero Picozzi
  • Discussion

10:00 Coffee break 

10:30 – Session 2
Moderators: Yasser Arka, Antonio Nicolato

  • Preop GKS. Marc Levivier
  • Italian Gamma Knife Study group. Antonio Nicolato
  • 4 versus 8 mm coll in mets GKS. Cornel Tancu
  • Benefits of Data enrichment solutions for GKS Planning. Selcuk Peker
  • Intuitive inverse planning versus the expert in VS. Jean Régis
  • Discussion

12:00 – 13:00     Lunch

13:00 Session 3 – Elekta session 

14:00 – Session 4 
Moderators: Ian Paddick, Jeremy Row

  • How to integrate BED concept in future doseplanning. Constantin Tuleasca
  • The European diploma of SRS from the ESSFN & EANS. Jean Régis
  • Commissioning tests on a Icon using an RTsafe Humanoid phantom. Ian Paddick
  • Circulating microRNAs in patients with brain metastases and treated with GKS. Silvia Catelan
  • Functional Imaging in OCD: State of the Art & Future perspective. Giorgio Spatola
  • Discussion

15:30 Coffee break 

16:00 – Session 5
Moderators: Brigit Gratterbauer, Roberto Martinez

  • Timing Immune therapy and GKS. Brigitte Gatterbauer
  • CBCT of frame based is there a need for a consensus statement. Ian Paddick 
  • Vantage paradigm shift in GKS : technical issues. Roberto Martinez

17:30 – EGKS society GA & Next president election. Enrico Motti

18:30 Departure for the tour at the Oudayas and dinner at Dinarjat

SUNDAY 24 November 

09:30 Grey corner. Adyl Melhaoui, Y. Arkha

10:00 –  Session 6

  • Renaissance of GK lesioning. Dusan Urgosik
  • Thalamotomy and cingulotomy. Pietro Picozzi 
  • Hypophysectomy. Jean Regis
  • HIFU versus GKS. Silvia Catelan

10:45 Closing remarks

11:00 EGKS Board Meeting