6th International Spine Tumor Days
May 20–21, 2022 • Dresden, Germany
Scientific programme
Friday – May 20, 2022
| 08:35–08:45 Room | Opening ceremony – Welcome „6th International Spine Tumor Days“ Saal Bellevue | |
| 08:45–09:30 Room Chair | Session I – Molecular basis, imaging prognostic of spinal tumors Saal Bellevue Alexander C. Disch (Dresden/DE), Jan Stulik (Prague/CZ) | |
| 08:45 | An update of molecular pathology and genetic recurrence factors of bone sarcoma Daniel Baumhoer (Basel/CH) | |
| 09:00 | En bloc Spondylectomy for solitary spinel metastases Klaus-Dieter Schaser (Dresden/DE) | |
| 09:15 | PET Imaging of spinal tumors – What should spine surgeons know and be aware of? Winfried Brenner (Berlin/DE) | |
| 09:30–10:00 | Coffee break | |
| 10:00–12:00 Room Chair | Session II – Benign tumors & tumor like lesions – Resection and reconstruction techniques Saal Bellevue Klaus-Dieter Schaser (Dresden/DE) | |
| 10:00 | Resection of benign tumors and tumor like lesions in the cervical spine Jan Stulik (Prague/CZ) | |
| 10:15 | Surgical management of aggressive spinal / vertebral hemangioma Juan Antonio Martin-Benlloch (Valencia/ES) | |
| 10:25 | Endovascular management of aggressive spinal / vertebral hemangioma Ralf-Thorsten Hoffmann (Dresden/DE) | |
| 10:40 | Osteoid-osteoma of the spine – Tips, tricks and limits of percutaneous ablation techniques Federico Collettini (Berlin/DE) | |
| 10:55 | Benign pediatric spinal tumors – spectrum and treatment overview (Report from the AO knowledge forum Tumor) Alexander C. Disch (Dresden/DE) | |
| 11:10 | Keynote lecture The tactile Internet Gerhard Fettweis (Dresden/DE) | |
| 12:00–12:30 | Lunch break | |
| 12:30–13:15 Room | Workshop I – Advanced techniques in spinal tumor treatment Saal Bellevue | |
| 13:15–14:00 Room Speaker | Workshop II – Utility of 45S5 Bioactive Glass as Bone Graft Substitute in Orthpaedic Oncology and Metastatic Spine Disease | |
| 14:00–15:30 Room Chair | Session III – Spinal malignancies – Resection & Reconstruction Techniques Saal Bellevue Juan Antonio Martin-Benlloch (Valencia/ES) | |
| 14:00 | Local recurrencies – impact of underlying primary tumor biology on surgical treatment Alexander C. Disch (Dresden/DE) | |
| 14:15 | Role of navigation in spinal/ sacral tumor resection – rather obstructive than supportive Hagen Fritzsche (Dresden/DE) | |
| 14:30 | Multisegmental thoracolumbar en bloc spondylectomy – surgical feasibility versus ongological usefulness? Alessandro Luzzati (Milano/IT) | |
| 14:45 | Spinal tumors with involvement / encasement of large vessels patients – limit your challenge or challenging your limits? Klaus-Dieter Schaser (Dresden/DE) | |
| 15:00 | Excision and spinopelvic reconstruction for sacral tumors – nothing can substitute experience…! Aron Lazáry (Budapest/HU) | |
| 15:15 | Anterolateral approach to subaxial cervical vertebral artery Abolfazi Rahimizadeh (Teheran/IR) | |
| 15:30–16:00 | Coffee break | |
| 16:00–16:30 | Keynote lecture Modern concepts in surgical treatment of spinal chordoma Ziya L. Gokoslan (Providence/US) | |
| 16:30–17:50 Room Chair | Session IV – Abstract session Saal Bellevue Markus Schultheiss (Ulm/DE), Cordula Netzer (Basel/CH) | |
| 16:30 | Complete resection of sticky ossified dorsal meningioma without neurovascular complications Ali Hammed (Lattakia/SY) | |
| 16:40 | AKT1 E17K and NF2 mutations dominate spinal meningiomas WHO grade 1 and present distinct tumor features Tareq Juratli (Dresden/DE) | |
| 16:50 | Results of differential surgical treatment of patients with spinal plasmacytomas Murodjon Kosimshoev (Novosibirsk/RU) | |
| 17:00 | Spinal long-term biomechanical alterations after intramedullary tumors resection via laminectomy and laminoplasty Dino Podlesek (Dresden/DE) | |
| 17:10 | Intraperative blood loss is significantly as sociated with early complications in cervical spine tumor surgery Iulian-LAurentiu Tiripa (Karlsbad-Langensteinbach/DE) | |
| 17:20 | Epidemiology of surgically treated spinal tumors according to the German Society for Spine Surgery (DWG) registry Sebastian Walter (Köln/DE) | |
| 17:30 | Case report for giant ilio-lumbosacral osteosarcoma: management by en bloc excision and spinopelvic fixation Anna Weidlich (Dresden/DE) | |
Saturday – May 21, 2022
| 08:50–09:00 Room Chair | Short information about the Spine Tumor Academy Saal Bellevue Klaus-Dieter Schaser (Dresden/DE) | |
| 09:00–10:00 Room Chair | Session V – Complications and failures Saal Bellevue Alessandro Luzzati (Milano/IT), Klaus-Dieter Schaser (Dresden/DE) | |
| 09:00 | Spinal reconstruction failure in long term survivors – concepts for anterior fusion after multisegmental resection Jeremy Reynolds (Oxford/GB) | |
| 09:15 | En bloc resection for malignant cervical spine tumors: a desparate or worthwhile endeavor? Jeremy Reynolds (Oxford/GB) | |
| 09:30 | Managing sequalea of posterior approaches and wound complications – plastic coverage and flaps Adrian Dragu (Dresden/DE) | |
| 09:45 | Intra-/ postoperative CSF leakage in extradural spinal tumor resection – Recognition, avoidance and management? Florian Ringel (Mainz/DE) | |
| 10:00 | Local recurrencies – impact of underlying primary tumor biology on surgical treatment Klaus-Dieter Schaser (Dresden/DE) | |
| 10:15–10:45 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:45–11:30 Room Chair | Session VI – New trends and perspectives Saal Bellevue Aron Lazáry (Budapest/HU) | |
| 10:45 | Clinical results of proton-beam neo-/ adjuvant radiotherapy for primary spine/ paraspinal sarcomas Esther Troost (Dresden/DE) | |
| 11:00 | Carbon-fiber implants for the treatment of spinal tumors – biomechanical characteristics combined with advantages for radiation planning, restaging imaging? Florian Ringel (Mainz/DE) | |
| 11:15 | The NCT MASTER (Molecularly Aided Stratification for Tumor Eradication Research) program – role of precision oncology in sarcoma treatment Stefan Fröhling (Heidelberg/DE) | |
| 11:30 | Summary and Farewell – “Dresden calling” – announcement of the 7th ISTD | |
