Review 2022
The 73rd Annual Meeting of the German Society for Neurosurgery was held in Cologne, Germany, May 29-June 01, 2022. The motto of the meeting was Paradigm Shift in Neurosurgery: Personalization and Precision Medicine
This booklet was provided in digital form only.
Congress information at a glance
This booklet was available on site in printed form.
| Monday, 30. May 2022 | |
| 11:00–12:20 Chairs | News and updates from the sections of the DGNC Roland H. Goldbrunner (Cologne), Veit Rohde (Göttingen) |
| 11:00 | News and updates from the Section Neurotrauma and Intensive Care Medicine Nicole Angela Terpolilli (Munich) |
| 11:10 | News and updates from the Section Functional Neurosurgery Rezvan Ahmadi (Heidelberg) |
| 11:20 | News and updates from the Section Spine Sven Oliver Eicker (Hamburg) |
| 11:30 | News and updates from the Section Peripheral Nerves Christian Heinen (Quakenbrück) |
| 11:40 | News and updates from the Section Neurooncology Michael Christoph Sabel (Düsseldorf) |
| 11:50 | News and updates from the Section Paediatric Neurosurgery Hans Christoph Ludwig (Göttingen) |
| 12:00 | News and updates from the Section Vascular Neurosurgery Dorothee Mielke (Göttingen), Erdem Güresir (Bonn) |
| 12:10 | News and updates from the Section Technology and Innovation Julian Prell (Halle/Saale), Stefan Linsler (Homburg/Saar) |
| 16:00–17:30 Chairs | New horizons in Functional Neurosurgery Joint session with the European Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery (ESSFN) Veerle Visser-Vandewalle (Cologne), Joachim K. Krauss (Hannover) |
| 16:00 | Awake versus asleep DBS in Parkinson’s disease Rick Schuurman (Amsterdam/NL) |
| 16:30 | DBS in Alzheimer´s Disease Özgur Onur (Cologne) |
| 17:00 | Restoring movement after spinal cord injury – the promise of neurotechnology Jocelyne Bloch (Lausanne/CH) |
| Tuesday, 31. May 2022 | |
| 10:45–12:15 Chairs | Meningioma management Joint session with the Society for Neuro-Oncology (SNO) and European Association of Neuro-Oncology (EANO) Gelareh Zadeh (Toronto/CA), Roland H. Goldbrunner (Cologne) |
| 10:45 | EANO guidelines on management of meningiomas Pantelis Stavrinou (Athen/GR) |
| 11:00 | Skull base meningiomas Makoto Nakamura (Cologne) |
| 11:15 | Basic science on meningiomas Christian Mawrin (Magdeburg) |
| 11:30 | Future of meningioma therapy Gelareh Zadeh (Toronto/CA) |
| 16:30–17:30 Chairs | Changing paradigms for Brain Metastases Joint session with the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Emilie Le Rhun (Zürich/CH), Maximilian Ruge (Cologne) |
| 16:30 | EANO-ESMO guidelines on brain metastases Emilie Le Rhun (Zürich/CH) |
| 16:42 | Surgical aspects Philippe Metellus (Marseille/FR) |
| 16:54 | Radiotherapy for brain metastases – from global to focal therapy Frank A. Giordano (Bonn) |
| 17:06 | Systemic therapy of brain metastases across the blood brain barrier Jürgen Wolf (Cologne) |
| 17:18 | Outlook Stefan Grau (Fulda) |
| Wednesday, 01. June 2022 | |
| 09:30–10:30 Chairs | Developments in neurovascular surgery Daniel Hänggi (Düsseldorf), Konstantions Fountas (Larissa/GR) |
| 09:30 | News on the management of patients with cavernomas Ulrich Sure (Essen) |
| 09:45 | EMMA study Marc Schlamann (Cologne) |
| 10:00 | Minimally invasive ICB treatment. Renaissance of surgery? Nils Hecht (Berlin) |
| 10:15 | Endovascular treatment of recanalised aneurysms initially treated by endovascular approach Ioannis Ioannidis (Larissa/GR) |
| 12:00–13:30 Chairs | Glioblastom therapy. Quo vadis? Joint Session with the Neuro-oncological Working Group (NOA) Stephanie Combs (Munich), Walter Stummer (Münster) |
| 12:00 | Molecular genetics of glioblastoma – recent advances and diagnostic implications Guido Reifenberger (Düsseldorf) |
| 12:15 | New concepts for intraoperative visualisation Volker Neuschmeltung (Cologne) |
| 12:30 | Radiation oncology Stephanie Combs (Munich) |
| 12:45 | Immunotherapy and targeted therapies Michael Weller (Zürich/CH) |
| 12:00–13:30 Chairs | Maximal versus minimal in spine fusion Joint Session with the German Spine Society (DWG) Alexandros Brotis (Larissa/GR), Peter Vajkoczy (Berlin) |
| 12:00 | Pros and Cons of different fusion techniques Claudius Thomé (Innsbruck/AT) |
| 12:15 | Management of pathological fractures Yu-Mi Ryang (Berlin) |
| 12:30 | Update on modern fusion surgery Ulf Liljenqvist (Münster) |
| 12:45 | Cervical fusions Peer Eysel (Cologne) |
| 13:00 | Special cases Bernhard Meyer (München) |
As in previous years, the abstracts of the DGNC Annual Meeting 2022 are available for citation on the German Medical Science (GMS) portal.
All abstracts of the presentations and ePosters to the congress are compiled in an abstract volume.
We thank Mr. Thomas Hauss for the photo documentation. Under the following link you will find all impressions of the conference.
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