Romanian Neurosurgery Journal, Volume XXXII, September 2018, SUPPLEMENT 44th Congress of the Romanian Society of Neurosurgery 5th Danube Carpathian Region Congress 23rd French Course in Neurosurgery Pre-Congress course – September 5, 2018 2nd Nurse Symposium September 5-8, 2018, Timisoara | Romania ABSTRACTS 2 | ABSTRACTS Romanian Neurosurgery Journal, Volume XXXII, September 2018, Supplement | 3 CUPRINS FUNCTIONAL NEUROSURGERY – SURGERY FOR PAIN 2 ............................. 15 CERVICAL DREZ-OTOMY IN PAIN TREATMENT ........................................................... 16 IOANA SOFIA NISTOR, CLAUDIU MATEI, IULIA DANCU SURGERY FOR PAIN IN CANCER PATIENTS .................................................................... 17 ANDREI BRINZEU DORSAL RHIZOTOMY FOR CHILDREN WITH SPASTIC DIPLEGIA – QUADRIPLEGIA OF CEREBRAL PALSY ORIGIN: INTRAOPERATIVE NEUROMONITORING .............................................................................................................. 18 GEORGE GEORGOULIS, ANDREI BRINZEU, MARC SINDOU TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA AND MICROVASCULAR DECOMPRESSION .... 20 RELIABILITY OF MRI FOR PREDICTING CHARACTERISTICS OF THE NEUROVASCULAR CONFLICTS IN TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA. IMPLICATION IN SURGICAL DECISION MAKING FOR MICROVASCULAR DECOMPRESSION ......... 21 ANDREI BRINZEU, MARC SINDOU MICROVASCULAR DECOMPRESSION FOR THE TREATMENT OF AN UNUSUAL CASE OF PAINFUL SPASMS IN FACIAL, MASTICATORY, AND MOTOR OCULAR MUSCLES ...................................................................................................................................... 23 TANIA IDRICEANU, MARC SINDOU DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION (4) ......................................................................... 24 THE INDICATIONS OF DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION FOR MOVEMENT DISORDERS .................................................................................................................................. 25 STEPHANE THOBOIS CURRENT STATE OF DBS PROGRAMS IN ROMANIA: INDICATIONS, CLINICAL PATHWAYS AND RESULTS .................................................................................................... 26 AMALIA ENE, OANA OBRISCA, AURELIA DABU, CORNEL TUDOR EPILEPSY SURGERY 1 ........................................................................................... 27 EPILEPSY SURGERY: FROM INVASIVE INVESTIGATIONS TO FOCUS RESECTION .................................................................................................................................. 28 MARC GUENOT 4 | ABSTRACTS CLASSICAL TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY 3D VIDEO PRESENTATION ........................... 30 ANDREI BRINZEU, MARC GUENOT SURGICAL TREATMENT OF TEMPORAL LOBE TUMOR-RELATED EPILEPSY ....... 31 SAJKO TOMISLAV EPILEPSY SURGERY 2 .......................................................................................... 32 NON-RESECTIVE EPILEPSY SURGERY ................................................................................ 33 MARC GUENOT VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION THERAPY FOR REFRACTORY EPILEPSY: SURGICAL EXPERIENCE AND NEUROLOGICAL OUTCOME IN 330 CONSECUTIVE OPERATED PATIENTS ............................................................................... 35 FELIX-MIRCEA BREHAR, MIRCEA GORGAN, SILVIA MARA BAEZ RODRIGUEZ, GEORGE PETRESCU, ROXANA RADU, ANDREI GIOVANI COMPLICATIONS OF INVASIVE EEG MONITORING .................................................... 37 KOSTAS N. FOUNTAS, MD, PHD FREE TOPICS 1 ...................................................................................................... 38 SAFETY OF THE SITTING POSITION. A NATURAL RANDOMIZATION STUDY ON 96 PATIENTS ................................................................................................................................ 39 TANIA IDRICEANU, CHLOE DUMOT, EMMANUEL JOUANNEAU, JACQUES GUYOTAT, MARC SINDOU, ANDREI BRINZEU ADVANTAGES OF AUTOLOGOUS FIBRIN SOLUTION (AFS) IN PREVENTION OF MAJOR COMPLICATIONS IN NEUROSURGERY (HEMORRHAGIC COMPLICATIONS AND CSF FISTULAS) .............................................................................. 40 IONUT LUCA-HUSTI MD. PHD., OVIDIU GRAMESCU MD., DAN BENTIA MD., DAN VOINESCU MD. PHD., PROF. ALEXANDRU VLAD CIUREA MD. PHD. MSC. DR.H.C. MULT. AN RCT OF POOR GRADE SUBARACHNOID HAEMORRHAGE – TOPSAT2 ........... 42 BARBARA A GREGSON, PHIL WHITE, DIP MITRA, PATRICK MITCHELL TO EVACUATE THE HAEMATOMA OR NOT: NEW ANALYSIS OF THE STICH TRIALS ........................................................................................................................................... 43 BARBARA A GREGSON, PATRICK MITCHELL, A. DAVID MENDELOW FREE TOPICS 2 ...................................................................................................... 44 MICROSURGERY / ENDOVASCULAR / COMBINED TREATMENT OF INTRACRANIAL VASCULAR LESIONS ................................................................................ 45 KRESIMIR ROTIM Romanian Neurosurgery Journal, Volume XXXII, September 2018, Supplement | 5 BLEEDING CONTROL IN SPINAL NEUROSURGERY - REVIEW OF AVAILABLE OPTIONS ....................................................................................................................................... 46 MARCEL IVANOV, ALEXANDRU BUDU, JAKE TIMOTHY OPTIONS FOR SURGERY IN THE MULTIMODAL TREATMENT OF INTRACRANIAL CAROTID SYSTEM ANEURYSMS ......................................................... 47 RADOI MUGUREL, RAM VAKILNEJAD, FLORIN STEFANESCU DOWNHILL IN SEVEN DAYS - FROM ANEURYSM TO MASSIVE BRAIN EDEMA ............................................................................................................................ 49 DIMANCEA ALEXANDRU, CORNEL TUDOR, DAN TELEANU, ALEXANDRU NASTASE, HORATIU MOISA DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY IN PSEUDOTUMORAL ISCHEMIC STROKE OF THE MCA - RETROSPECTIVE STUDY - ......................................................................... 51 MIHAELA ANDREEA GAVRILEI, VICENTIU SACELEANU SELLAR AND PARASELLAR TUMORS 1 ............................................................. 52 OUTCOME FOLLOWING TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY OF GROWTH HORMONE-SECRETING PITUITARY ADENOMAS: A SINGLE-CENTER EXPERIENCE OVER 8 YEARS .................................................................................................. 53 ADRIANA SOLOMON, TABITA CAZAC, LIGIA TATARANU, VASILE CIUBOTARU, ANICA DRICU, BOGDAN DAVID CONTEMPORARY SURGICAL MANAGEMENT OF CRANIOPHARYNGIOMAS: WHAT IS SAFE REMOVAL? ..................................................................................................... 55 FRANCESCO TOMASELLO PITUITARY ADENOMA: ENDOSCOPIC VERSUS MICROSCOPIC APPROACH ....... 56 SINHA VIRENDRA DEO, NAND KISHORE GORA GIANT PITUITARY ADENOMAS: HOW TO DEAL WITH .............................................. 58 DANIEL ROTARIU, RAZVAN BUGA, CRISTINA CRISTEA, LETITIA LEUSTEAN, ZIYAD FAIYAD, ION POEATA SELLAR AND PARASELLAR TUMORS 2 ............................................................. 59 CHALLENGES IN MANAGEMENT OF CUSHING DISEASE (CD) ................................. 60 IMAD N. KANAAN, MD, FACS, FRCS, ED PEARLS AND PITFALLS IN MICROSURGICAL APPROACHES TO TUMORS INVOLVING THE SELLAR AND PARASELLAR REGION ................................................ 61 RADU MIRCEA GORGAN, AURA MIHAELA SANDU, NARCISA BUCUR, ANGELA NEACSU, GEORGE E. D. PETRESCU, BOGDAN DAVID 6 | ABSTRACTS OUTCOME FOLLOWING NEUROSURGICAL TREATMENT IN CUSHING’S DISEASE ......................................................................................................................................... 62 MUGUR RADOI, ELIS ZEINALI, LIGIA TATARANU, VASILE CIUBOTARU, MARIUS CHELSOI, TABITA CAZAC PITUITARY APOPLEXY CURRENT CONCEPT OF TREATMENT ................................. 63 DANIEL ROTARIU, RAZVAN BUGA, MARIA CHRISTINA UNGUREANU, CRISTINA PREDA, ZIYAD FAIYAD, ION POEATA INTRAOPERATIVE NEUROMONITORING DURING ENDOSCOPIC ENDONASAL SURGERY ........................................................................................................... 64 CLAUDIU MATEI, FILIP DAN, SORIN SABAU, IULIA DANCU, CRISTINA ROMAN, SOFIA NISTOR NEUROTRAUMA .................................................................................................. 66 CONCEPT FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE GERMAN NEUROTRAUMA REGISTRY (GNR): FOR A NATIONWIDE CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT OF MANAGEMENT IN TBI ............................................................................................................. 67 PROF. DR. MED. WOLF INGO STEUDEL THE IMPORTANCE OF VIABLE C5 AND C6 PROXIMAL STUMPS FOR REANIMATION OF ELBOW FLEXION AND SHOULDER ABDUCTION IN BRACHIAL PLEXUS TRACTION INJURIES.......................................................................... 68 PROF. DR LUKAS RASULIĆ, ANDRIJA SAVIĆ, MILAN LEPIĆ, VOJIN KOVAČEVIĆ, FILIP VITOŠEVIĆ, NENAD NOVAKOVIĆ OUR EXPERIENCE WITH POST-TRAUMATIC CRANIOPLASTY ................................. 70 ALEXANDRU VLAD CIUREA, HORIA PLES, DAN AUREL NICA, DANIEL TELEANU, HORATIU MOISA A 4-CASE STUDY OF ALLOPLASTIC CRANIOPLASTY BY ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING OF 3D PRINTED MODIFIED MOLD ............................................... 72 BRUNO SPLAVSKI, MD, PHD, GORAN LAKICEVIC, MD, PHD, KRESIMIR ROTIM, MD, PHD, BORIS BOZIC, MD, PHD, DAMIR GODEC, PHD CONTINUOUS INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING IN SEVERE TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY IN CHILDREN ..................................................................... 73 STEFAN MIRCEA IENCEAN, ALEXANDRU TASCU, COSMIN ALEXANDRU APETREI, CEZAR GHEORGHITA, ANDREI STEFAN IENCEAN THE CHALLENGE OF NEUROSURGICAL TRAUMA - PREVENTING DISABILITY AND DEATH .......................................................................................................