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Programme 15th November

06:30 Secretariat opens
SIMULTANEOUS BREAKFAST SESSIONS
 
BREAKFAST SESSION 1Auditorium

Surgery for disorders of the autonomous nervous system
Chairperson: Laureano MOLINS
 
07:00 - 07:15 Surgery for facial flushing: importance of preoperative
psychiatric consultation
Claudio SUÁREZ
 
07:15 - 07:30 Clipping versus cutting
Juan J. FIBLA
 
07:30 - 07:55 Discussion
 
BREAKFAST SESSION 2Conference Room 1

Extended resections for locally advanced lung cancer
and chest wall tumours
Chairpersons: Fernando A. ABDALA – Amaia OJANGUREN
 
07:00 - 07:15 Extended resection in Stage III-B Lung Cancer
Haruhiko KONDO
 
07:15 - 07:30 Extended resection of chest wall tumors
Angelo FERNANDES
 
07:30 - 07:55 Discussion
 
VIDEO FORUM 3Surgical staging and restaging of the mediastinum
Chairpersons: Hisao ASAMURA – Ramón RAMI-PORTA
 
08:00 - 08:12 Cervical video-mediastinoscopy & extended cervical
videomediastinoscopy
Sergi CALL
 
08:12 - 08:24 Video-assisted mediastinoscopic lymphadenectomy (VAMLA)
Martin HÜRTGEN
 
08:24 - 08:36 Transcervical extended mediastinal lymphadenectomy (TEMLA)
Marcin ZIELINSKI
 
08:36 - 08:48 Mediastinal and pleuro-mediastinal exploration by VATS
Antonio MARTÍN-UCAR
 
08:48 - 09:00 Remediastinoscopy
Paul VAN SCHIL
 
09:00 - 09:25 Discussion
 
SESSION 5The 7th edition of the TNM classification of lung cancer in practice
Chairpersons: Valerie RUSCH – Mireia SERRA
 
09:30 - 09:42 Clinical implications
Ramón RAMI-PORTA
 
09:42 - 09:54 Tips for a proper pathologic classification
Peter GOLDSTRAW
 
09:54 - 10:06 The visceral pleura invasion: discrepancies in interpretation
and prognostic value
Hisao ASAMURA
 
10:06 - 10:18 Difficulties with the new regional lymph node map
Haruhiko KONDO
 
10:18 - 10:30 Staging value of intraoperative pleural lavage cytology
Eric LIM
 
10:30 - 11:00 Discussion
 
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
 
EXTRAORDINARY
LECTURE 2
Chairperson: Ramón RAMI-PORTA
 
11:00 - 11:20 How to do a meta-analysis
Eric LIM
 
11:20 - 11:30 Discussion
 
SESSION 6Lung cancer: regional nodal disease
Chairpersons: Ramón RAMI-PORTA – Paul VAN SCHIL
 
11:30 - 11:40 Frequency and prognostic impact of nodal micrometastases
Bernward PASSLICK
 
11:40 - 11:50 Prognostic heterogeneity of N1 disease
Pierre MORDANT
 
11:50 - 12:00 Prognostic heterogeneity of N2 disease
Frank DETTERBECK
 
12:00 - 12:10 Frequency and prognostic impact of skip pN2 disease
Pierre MORDANT
 
12:10 - 12:20 Relevance of the number of positive lymph nodes
Hisao ASAMURA
 
12:20 - 12:30 The nodal zones: How to use them in clinical staging
Valerie RUSCH
 
12:30 - 13:00 Discussion
 
13:00 - 13:55 Lunch
 
13:00 - 13:55 SIMULTANEOUS LUNCH SESSION
 
LUNCH
SESSION 2
Conference Room 1

Osteosynthesis for flail chest and/or extended rib fractures
Gilbert MASSARD
 
LUNCH
SESSION 3
Conference Room 2
Chairpersons: Ramón MARRADES

Bioengineered lungs
Ramón FARRÉ
 
VIDEO FORUM 4Intraoperative nodal assessment
Chairpersons: Frank DETTERBECK – Haruhiko KONDO
 
14:00 - 14:10 How to do it by VATS
Raja M. FLORES
 
14:10 - 14:20 How to do it by robotics
Robert CERFOLIO
 
14:20 - 14:40 Systematic nodal dissection for right-sided and left-sided tumours
Hisao ASAMURA
 
14:40 - 14:50 Precise dissection of intrapulmonary and hilar lymph nodes: how to use the electrocautery
Shun-Ichi WATANABE
 
14:50 - 15:00 Combined VAMLA & VATS
Biruta WITTE
 
15:00 - 15:30 Discussion
 
15:30 - 15:55 Coffee break
 
SESSION 7Sponsored by: TAKEDA

Present limitations and future directions in staging
of thoracic malignancies
Chairpersons: Peter GOLDSTRAW – José BELDA-SANCHIS

 
16:00 - 16:12 Lung cancer
Ramón RAMI-PORTA
 
16:12 - 16:24 Mesothelioma
Valerie RUSCH
 
16:24 - 16:36 Thymic malignancies
Frank DETTERBECK
 
16:36 - 16:48 Oesophageal cancer
Thomas RICE
 
16:48 - 17:10 Discussion
 
SESSION 8Spanish contribution to the prospective phase
of the IASLC Staging Project
Chairpersons: Peter GOLDSTRAW – Mireia SERRA MITJANS
 
17:15 - 17:27 Characteristics of the Bronchogenic Carcinoma Cooperative Group of the Spanish Society of Pneumology and Thoracic Surgery II (GCCB-S-II) and global description of their study
Julio SÁNCHEZ DE COS ESCUÍN
 
17:27 - 17:39 Principal characteristics of the non-surgically treated patients
Jesús HERNÁNDEZ HERNÁNDEZ
 
17:39 - 17:51 Principal characteristics of the surgically treated patients
Mireia SERRA
 
17:51 - 18:03 Concordance between clinical and pathologic classification
Helena HERNÁNDEZ RODRÍGUEZ
 
18:03 - 18:25 Discussion
 
EXTRAORDINARY
LECTURE 3
Chairpersons: Laureano MOLINS – Ramón RAMI-PORTA
 
18:30 - 19:00 Medical ethics in the movies
Silvia QUADRELLI
 
19:00 - 19:15 Interview
Adolfo BLANCO
 
19:30 Secretariat closes