Friday, 27 February 2004
Venue - Ist Department of Surgery, 40 Kopernika St.

08.30 - Welcome - J. Kulig

Oncologic radicality and laparoscopy

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Session I (09.00 - 09.50) Invited lectures:

Chairmen: A.Cuschieri, T.Popiela.

- Sir A.Cuschieri: Laparoscopic surgery for gastrointestinal cancer.
- J.Kulig: The role of endocavital ultrasonography in gastrointestinal
                malignancies

09.50- 10.00 Coffee break

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Session II (10.00- 13.00):

Chairman: Z.Puchalski
Moderators: M.Drews, A.Dziki, J.Kulig

- V. C. Hüscher - Laparoscopic gastric cancer resection (live demonstration)
- V. J.Schmidt - Laparoscopic TME in rectal cancer (live demonstration)
- G.Buess - Modern operating theater- idea of solo surgery (Invited lecture)

13.00 - 14.00 Lunch break

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Session III (14.00- 16.00):

Chairman: P.Lampe
Moderators: Z.Grzebieniak, W.Nowak, A.Bobrzyński

- I.N.Basso - Laparoscopic adrenalectomy (live demonstration)
- C. Hüscher - Laparoscopic colectomy (live demonstration)
- E.Laporte - Robotics in laparoscopic surgery (Invited lecture)

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Session IV (16.00- 17.00):
Laparoscopy, GI Cancer Surgery, Future and Practice -
Disscussion with the operators:

Chairmen: A. Cuschieri, T. Popiela, N.Basso, C.Hüscher, J.Schmidt,

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Saturday, 28 February 2004,
at 8.15-11.00 - Venue - Collegium Medicum, 12 w.Anny St.

• Chairmen: M.Lirici, G.Buess, D.Gossot
  
• Andreas Melzer: Advanced tumor imaging
• Marc Schurr: Self-propelling endoscopes for painless tumor detection in the colon
• Andreas Melzer: Robotics for image guided tumor ablation
• Leonid Lantsberg: Impact of sentinel lymph node program on breast
  care in southern Israel
• Jan Kulig, Piotr Richter, Piotr Szybiński, Alicja Hubalewska: Laparoscopic biopsy of the SN following lymphoscintigraphy in small rectal cancers treated with TEM
• Dominique Gossot: Full thoracoscopic approach for major pulmonary resections
• Marc Schurr: Transoral fundoplication: instrumentation, method and experimental results
• Andreas Melzer: Gelsenkirchen training courses on applied biomedical
  engineering

13.15-15.00:

EAES Technology Committee Meeting