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Wednesday, December 13 

1st day

Room A
12:00-12:25✿ Opening ceremony
Chairperson: Morota N (JPN)
1. Opening remarks

Shirane R (JPN)

2. Address from AASPN

Wang KC (KOR)

3. Address from Japanese Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery (JSPN)

Nonaka M (JPN)

4. Address from the Japan Neurosurgical Society (JNS)

Saito N (JPN)

5. Overview of the scientific program

Morota N (JPN)

12:30-13:30
Symposium 1: Ventriculo-peritoneal shunt
Chairpersons: Suryaningtyas W (IDN), Shimoji K (JPN)
12:30-12:45

Invited lecture
Sun P (USA): Management of shunt infection: intraventricular infusion of anti-biotics
AASPN faculty lectures

12:45-12:55

Ganesan D (MYS): Programable valve

12:55-13:05

Bhattacharjee S (IND): Chhabra valve

13:05-13:15

Kusuma AA (IDN): Selection of the shunt valve in Asia-Australasia

13:15-13:30

Discussion

Room AS

Theme: Controversies in Pediatric Neurosurgery

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13:30-14:30
Symposium 2: Infantile hydrocephalus
Chairpersons: Baticulon R (PHL), Kunihiro T (JPN)
13:30-13:45

Invited lecture
Cinalli G (ITA): Pathophysiology of external hydrocephalus and its management

13:45-14:00

Invited lecture
Constantini S (ISR): Best practice of infant ETV: does CPC work or no use?
AASPN faculty lectures

14:00-14:10

Suryaningtyas W (IDN): ETV for small or slit ventricle: Risk management

14:10-14:20

Orkhontuul S (MNG): What is the best practice of infantile hydrocephalus in LMIC
(low-middle income country) in Asia- Australasia

14:20-14:30

Discussion

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Program
1st day

14:40-16:00✿ AASPN 10th anniversary session 1: AASPN in the global pediatric neurosurgery
Chairpersons: Suresh S (IND), Seow WT(SGP), Wong TT(TWN)
14:40-14:55

Boop F (USA): Introduction: past, present and future of ISPN (International Society for
Pediatric Neurosurgery)

14:55-15:05

Wang KC (KOR): The status quo and activity of AASPN

15:05-15:15

Baticulon R (PHL): Pediatric neurosurgery in Southeast Asia

15:15-15:30

Narenthiran G (UK): Global networking in pediatric neurosurgery

15:30-15:40

ISPN-AASPN MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) ceremony
Constantini S (ISR):

15:40-15:55

Constantini S (ISR): AASPN in ISPN

15:55-16:00

Suryaningtyas W (IND): Next AASPN 2025 in Indonesia

Wang KC (KOR),

16:00-16:15
th✿ AASPN 10 anniversary session 2: Memorials of ISPN comrades for AASPN
Chairpersons: Wang KC (KOR), Sakamoto H(JPN)
16:00-16:05

Maixner W (AUS): James T. Goodrich

16:05-16:10

Usami K (JPN): Michel Zerah
Silence

16:25-17:40
Symposium 3: Plagiocephaly: positional or synostotic? diagnosis & management
Chairpersons: Thanh Can DD (VNM), Miwa T(JPN)

Room A

16:25-16:40

Invited lecture
Di Rocco (FRA): Current surgical management of anterior and posterior plagiocephaly

16:40-16:55

Invited lecture
Durham S (USA): Guideline of positional plagiocephaly
AASPN faculty lectures

16:55-17:05

Harada A (JPN): Diagnosis and management of positional plagiocephaly

17:05-17:15

Shim KW (KOR): Quantitative assessment of shape deformation:craniosynostotic
plagiocephaly

17:15-17:25

Hikosaka M (JPN): Cranial shape induction: management by helmets

17:25-17:40

Discussion

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Room C

1st day

12:30-13:20
Oral presentation 1: TUMOR 1
Chairpersons: Kawamura A (JPN), Kagawa N (JPN)
A-0009 Oral Zhao R (CHN): Frameless robot assisted stereotactic biopsy: an effective andminimally invasive technique for pediatric diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas
A-0065 Oral Lee J (KOR): The risk and benefit of early surgery for infants with congenital brain
tumors
A-0093 Oral Kurozumi K (JPN): Multimodality in pediatric brain tumor surgery -endoscope,
exoscope, & navigationA-0121 Flash Fuad N (MYS): Analyzing the extent of tumor resection in intraoperative ultrasoundguided surgeries for pediatric posterior fossa tumors : a single centre experience
A-0151 Flash Ohe N (JPN): Neuroendoscopic surgery for deep brain tumors using a smalldiameter ultrasonic aspirator
A-0197 Flash Nagata Y (JPN): Two-staged endoscopic surgery for craniopharyngioma with
obstructive hydrocephalus
A-0196 Flash Kagawa N (JPN): Usefullness of 4K3D-exoscopic removal for pediatric fourth
ventricular tumors
A-0182 Flash Kuroha M (JPN): Preoperative radiological diagnosis of pediatric posterior fossa
tumors
A-0184 Flash Wakabayashi M (JPN): Is surgical resection the first line for left hippocampal tumor
in pediatric case? : a case report and literature review
Q&A

13:20-14:00
Oral presentation 2: TUMOR 2
Chairpersons: Chiba K (JPN), Gui S (CHN)
A-0101 Oral Dang Do Thanh C (VNM): Microsurgical resection for pediatric pineal region
tumors: experiences from Vietnam
A-0123 Oral Chou SC (TWN): The diagnostic accuracy of intracranial germinomas: tumor
markers versus tumor biopsy
A-0113 Flash Kagawa N (JPN): Long-term outcome of central nervous system germ cell tumors:
reduced-dose radiotherapy and intensified chemotherapy improves clinical outcomeand quality of life of long-term survivors
A-0028 Flash Koh EJ (KOR): Survival and malignant transformation of pineal parenchymal tumors:
A 30-year retrospective analysis in a single-institution

A-0128 Flash Jian G (CHN): Treatment standard and controversies on the pediatric intracranial
NGGCT

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A-0039 Flash Chen H (TWN): A case series and literature review on 98 pediatric patients of germ
cell tumor developing growing teratoma syndrome

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1st day

A-0185 Flash Yamaguchi J (JPN): A retrospective analysis of clinical course of pediatric
ependymoma cases in a single instituteA-0195 Flash Hirokawa D (JPN): Multidisciplinary treatment in ependymoma
A-0112 Flash Chen T-H (TWN): Direct evidence of the development of a myxopapillary
ependymoma of the filum terminale into a cauda equina tumor and its clinicalimplication
Q&A

14:00-14:40
Oral presentation 3: TUMOR 3
Chairpersons: Fujii Y (JPN), Ohe N (JPN)
A-0148 Oral Natsumeda M (JPN): Utility of cerebrospinal fluid cell free DNA analysis for the
diagnosis of H3K27-altered diffuse midline gliomas
A-0189 Oral Ohka F (JPN): Rapid gene analyses in pediatric central nervous system tumor using
quantitative PCR device
A-0030 Flash Hotta R (JPN): Since the introduction of mTOR inhibitors, surgical resection of SEGA
has decreased, but surgical skills remain an essential techniqueA-0055 Flash Gomi A (JPN): Pediatric lower grade glioma surgery in the era of genomic medicine
A-0058 Flash Uematsu K (JPN): Clinical characteristics of three patients with deficient DNA
mismatch repair glioblastoma
A-0078 Flash Usami K (JPN): Genetic diagnosis of pediatric brain tumors by liquid biopsy
A-0094 Flash Ohe N (JPN): Molecular pathological analysis of radiation-induced glioblastoma
after pediatric cerebellar medulloblastoma treatment
A-0186 Flash Shiba Y (JPN): Efficacy and safety of bevacizumab, irinotecan, and temozolomide
combination for relapsed or refractory pediatric central nervous system embryonaltumor
A-0085 Flash Chiba K (JPN): Pediatric brain stem gliomas: the past, present and future
Q&A

16:25-17:50
Educational session 1: From basic to advanced management—neuroendoscopic tumor surgery
Chairpersons: Wittayanakorn N (THA), Kurozumi K (JPN)

Room C

16:25-16:40

Cinalli G (ITA): Intraventricular tumor

16:40-16:55

Thomale UW (DEU): Periventricular tumor

16:55-17:10

Arakawa Y (JPN): Tubular brain tumor surgery

17:10-17:25

Gui S (CHN): Endoscopic transnasal surgery for pediatric craniopharyngiomas

17:25-17:40

Sankhla S (IND): Pediatric endonasal skull base surgery

17:40-17:50

Discussion

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Thursday, December 14 

2nd day

Room A

Chairpersons: Bhttacharjee S (IND), Kameda M (JPN)
8:30-8:45

Invited lecture
Sun P(USA): Middle fossa arachnoid cyst: Surgery or observation

2nd day

8:30-9:30
Symposium 4: Neurosurgical management of intracranial cystic lesions

AASPN faculty lectures
8:45-8:55

Kurihara J (JPN): What is the best practice? Endoscopic or microsurgery or shunt?

8:55-9:05

Thang LN (VMN): What is the best practice? Endoscopic or microsurgery or shunt?

9:05-9:15

Thanh Can DD (VNM): Surgery of naso-facial encephalocele

9:15-9:30

Discussion

9:30-12:35✿ The Japanese guidelines of pediatric brain tumors
Chairperson: Nagane M (JPN)
9:30-9:40

Introduction
Sugiyama K (JPN): Development of the Japanese guideline of pediatric brain tumors

Chairpersons: Nishikawa R (JPN), Kumabe T (JPN), Terashima K (JPN)
9:40-12:35

Japanese guideline of pediatric brain tumors

9:40-9:55

Hirose Y (JPN): Outline of the Japanese guideline

9:55-10:05

Jallo G (USA): Comment

10:05-10:15

Thomale UW (DEU): Comment

2: Germ cell tumors
10:15-10:30

Nakamura H (JPN): Outline of the Japanese guideline

10:30-10:40

Wong TT (TWN): Comment

10:40-10:50

Gong J (CHN): Comment

3: Medulloblastoma
10:50-11:05

Hashimoto N (JPN): Outline of the Japanese guideline

11:05-11:15

Sala F (ITA): Comment

11:15-11:25

Ma J (CHN): Comment
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1: Diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma

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4: Ependymoma
11:25-11:40

Uzuka T (JPN): Outline of the Japanese guideline

11:40-11:50

Boop F (USA): Comment

11:50-12:00

Liang ML (TWN): Comment

2nd day

5: Optic / hypothalamic glioma
12:00-12:15

Nakada M (JPN): Outline of the Japanese guideline

12:15-12:25

Cinalli G (ITA): Comment

12:25-12:35

Kim SK (KOR): Comment

12:45-13:00✿ Special lecture 1
Chairperson: Saito N (JPN)
Smith ER (USA): Novel topic of urinary biomarkers in diagnosis of brain tumors

13:10-14:20
Meet experts 1 (Luncheon seminar): Epilepsy management in Tuber Sclerosis Complex
Chairpersons: Kim DS (KOR), Yamamoto T (JPN)
13:10-13:25

Weiner HL (USA): Treatment strategy and surgical tactics

13:25-13:40

Fujimoto A (JPN): mTOR inhibitor, VNS and open cranial surgery

13:40-13:55

Ichikawa T (JPN): Japanese guideline of Tuber Sclerosis Complex (TSC)

13:55-14:10

Wittayanakorn N (THA): Epilepsy management in TSC

14:10-14:20

Discussion

Room A

14:30-15:40
th✿ AASPN 10 anniversary session 3:
Mami Yamasaki memorial session: woman pediatric neurosurgeons in Asia-Australasia
Chairpersons: Maixner W (AUS), Sobana M (IND), Kato M (JPN)
14:30-14:35

Lee JY (KOR): Introduction

14:35-14:50

Kuo MF (TWN): Women pediatric neurosurgeon in Asia-Australasia: carrier
development and life

14:50-15:05

Durham S (USA): Women pediatric neurosurgeon in North America: carrier
development and the life

15:05-15:20

Pettorini B (UK): Women pediatric neurosurgeon in Europe: carrier development andthe life

15:20-15:30

Wittayanakorn N (THA): My carrier as a pediatric neurosurgeon

15:30-15:40

Maixner W (AUS): AASPN woman pediatric neurosurgeons in ISPN: future
perspective
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15:40-16:40
Symposium 5: Pediatric Chiari type 1: what is the best practice?
Open or not to open the dura / Tonsillar coagulation or not / Management of a huge syrinx
Chairpersons: Sankhla S (IND), Shin M (JPN)
Brockmeyer DL (USA): What is the best practice?

15:55-16:10

Jackson E (USA): What is the best practice?

16:10-16:25

Ra YS (KOR): What is the best practice?

16:25-16:40

Discussion

2nd day

15:40-15:55

16:50-17:20✿ Special lecture 2
Chairperson: Date I (JPN)
16:50-17:05

Ichi S (JPN): Folate supplementation in Japan and AASPN countries

17:05-17:20

Narenthiran G (UK): Machine learning, metaverse and AI in neurosurgery

17:20-18:20
Symposium 6: Non-accidental head injury in children
Chairpersons: Kusuma AA (IND), Araki T (JPN)
17:20-17:35

Invited lecture
DiRocco F (FRA): Non-accidental head injury (AHI) in children: update
AASPN faculty lectures
Akutsu N (JPN): Minor head trauma and acute subdural hemorrhage (SDH) in relation
with non-AHI in children

17:45-17:55

Park YS (JPN): What is Nakamura type 1 infantile acute SDH?

17:55-18:05

Kho GS (MYS): non-AHI in Asia-Australasia

18:05-18:20

Discussion

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17:35-17:45

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Program
Room C
8:30-9:30
Educational session 2: From basic to advanced management—neurosurgical management of
spina bifida

2nd day

Chairpersons: Ma J (CHN), Gomi A (JPN)
8:30-8:45

Ahn ES (USA): Intrauterine repair of myelomeningocele (MMC): its evolution in theworld and future in AASPN countries

8:45-9:00

Lee JY (KOR): Embryology of the spinal cord and development of congenital
anomalies

9:00-9:15

Kato M (JPN): Impact of the new classification of spinal lipoma

9:15-9:30

Kong V (KHM): How I operate MMC

9:30-10:20
Oral presentation 4: CVJ
Chairpersons: Ando R (JPN), Alias A (MYS)
A-0116 Oral Ando R (JPN): Foramen magnum stenosis in achondroplasia-who really needs
decompression?
A-0153 Oral Hayashi Y (JPN): Long-term prognosis in patients associated with scoliosis andChiari malformation type I
A-0165 Oral Zhou M (CHN): Posterior intra-articular distraction technique to treat pediatricatlantoaxial instability
A-0029 Flash Robusto J (AUS): The fourth ventricular roof angle in Chiari-1 malformation - theQueensland experience
A-0033 Flash Miwa T (JPN): Endoscopic foramen magnum decompression for pediatric Chiarimalformation typeⅠ
A-0067 Flash Ando R (JPN): Earlier onset of Chiari malformation in children and its anatomicalcomplexity.
A-0072 Flash Nishiyama K (JPN): Autonomic dysfunctions presented after surgery for Chiari 1.5:
a case report and review of the literature
A-0076 Flash Kumagai N (JPN): Sleep apnea in patients with achondroplasia associated with
foramen magnum stenosis.
A-0187 Flash Yang S-H (TWN): Surgical instrumentation in the pediatric craniovertebral junction:
trick of the trade
Q&A

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Oral presentation 5: SPINE
Chairpersons: Chiba Y (JPN), Makino K (JPN)
A-0174 Oral Phi J (KOR): Growth of bony spur after early foramen magnum decompression forachondroplasia patients

A-0032 Flash Sasaki M (JPN): Continuous administration of dexmedetomidine reduce
intraoperative neuromonitoring in infants

2nd day

A-0013 Flash Kurimoto M (JPN): Establishment of intraoperative monitoring methods for pediatricspinal cord surgery analysis of the effects of general anesthesia methods on infants

A-0042 Flash Lim MS (MYS): Spinal instrumentation surgery in paediatric patients: a new era in
our local experience
A-0117 Flash Sun P (CHN): Fourth ventricle stent placement for treatment of refractor ysyringomyelia in children
A-0120 Flash Fuad N (MYS): Laminotomy technique for long segment pediatric spinal tumors: aten year case series from a single center experience
A-0122 Flash Avianti A (IDN): Early experience in pediatric spine infection : 4 years follow
up pediatric scoliosis patient caused by tuberculous spondylitis with posteriorstabilization
A-0159 Flash Kuranari Y (JPN): Multiple Tarlov cysts in a young child patient
A-0171 Flash Yokota C (JPN): The successful separation of conjoined spinal cords in pygopagus
twins; a case report and review of literature
Q&A

11:00-11:40
Oral presentation 6: TRAUMA
Chairpersons: Muroi A (JPN), Limpastan K (THA)
A-0049 Oral Araki T (JPN): The significance of neurosurgical treatment for abusive head trauma –comparison of outcomes with simple accident cases –A-0045 Flash Araki T (JPN): Issues related to organ donation from pediatric brain-dead donors inJapan: consideration and efforts regarding the prohibition of organ donation fromabused children
A-0004 Flash Taheri R (IRN): The consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on pediatricneurosurgery in the Middle East: an experience from a pediatric trauma hub
A-0017 Flash Srichantha S (THA): Bone flap resorption following pediatric autologous cranioplasty
and associated factors

A-0047 Flash Araki T (JPN): Consideration on the effect of coagulopathy in perioperative period
and the usefulness of the bleeding index in prognosis prediction of severe traumaticbrain injury in children
A-0063 Flash Hana T (JPN): Anatomic location trends in the occurrence of pediatric head trauma

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A-0064 Flash Nawashiro T (JPN): A case of non-traumatic subdural hematoma associate with
Jacobsen's syndrome
A-0190 Flash Muroi A (JPN): Sports participation after neurosurgery in children
A-0200 Flash Maliawan S (IDN): Neglected chronic EDH spinal in pediatric patient
Q&A

2nd day

11:40-12:30
Oral presentation 7: CRANIOSYNOSTOSISChairpersons: Sakuma J (JPN), Ganesan D (MYS)
A-0036 Oral Kho G (TWN): Management of patient with Crouzon’s syndrome withhydrocephalus, Chiari malformation and tethered fatty filum
A-0097 Oral Kyutoku S (JPN): From wrench open to bulge out - earlier wider suturectomy for
craniosynostosis reduces the surgical invasiveness A-0109 Oral Kim JW (KOR): Neurocognitive outcomes of children with craniosynostosis after
minimally invasive strip craniectomy
A-0077 Flash Yindeedej V (JPN): Transverse sinus dominance in non-syndromic unilateral coronalcraniosynostosis
A-0066 Flash Ichise A (JPN): A case of atypical sagittal synostosis with prominent digital
impressions, narrowing of the posterior cranial fossa, hydrocephalus, and posterior
nasal stenosis
A-0074 Flash Tomita Y (JPN): Growth curves for intracranial volume and two-dimensionalparameters for Japanese children without cranial abnormality: toward treatment of
craniosynostosis
A-0091 Flash Ishida J (JPN): Treatment strategy for craniosynostosis at Okayama Craniofacial
Center
A-0141 Flash Kimoto Y (JPN): Factors to avoid blood transfusion in craniosynostosis surgery
A-0191 Flash Miyairi Y (JPN): Navigation guided accurate osteotomy and preoperative simulation
for craniosynostosis with 3D-printed skull models.
A-0008 Flash Patni A (IND): Use of Piezoelectric for osteotomy in craniosynostosis – A single
centre experience
A-0046 Flash Kameda M (JPN): Helmet therapy with Aimet: From the standpoint of also being
involved in the Starband
A-0070 Flash Hirayama R (JPN): Long-term outcome of Cranioplasty using hydroxyapatite granules
and absorbable mesh plates for skull defects in children
Q&A

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13:10-14:20
Meet experts 2 (Luncheon seminar): Intravascular surgery in pediatric CNS lesions
Chairpersons: Phi JH(KOR), Miyachi S (JPN)
Smith ER (USA): Treatment strategy and surgical tactics of the pediatric AVM

13:30-13:50

Liang ML (TWN): Pediatric CVD: Future of open vs. intravascular surgery

13:50-14:10

Iizuka Y (JPN): Management of Vein of Galen Aneurysm

14:10-14:20

Discussion

15:10-16:00
Oral presentation 8: HYDROCEPHALUS 1

2nd day

13:10-13:30

Chairpersons: Koyama J (JPN), Alojan A (SAU)
A-0010 Oral Akai T (JPN): The analysis of cerebrospinal flow dynamics in mouse fetuses –Cerebrospinal fluid may flow out from the brain through the frontal skull base andchoroid plexusA-0126 Oral Ammar A (SAU): Family-base rare variant association analysis in Saudi Arabianhydrocephalus subjects using whole exome sequencing
A-0022 Flash Hashimoto H (JPN): Normal growth curve of choroid plexus in children: implications
for assessing hydrocephalus and choroid plexus hyperplasia
A-0016 Flash Arsyad AM (IDN): A demographic study and success rate of ETV + CPC in RSUP
HAM medan: a 5-year clinical experience
A-0019 Flash Yoshifuji K (JPN): Utility of stented ETV (SETV)
A-0073 Flash Nishiyama K (JPN): Endoscopic treatment for complications related to CSF shunt
A-0132 Flash Alojan A (SAU): Endoscopic third ventriculostomy success rate in younger than 1
year old hydrocephalus patients: a meta-analysis
A-0192 Flash Quang My L (VNM): Assessing the efficacy of endoscopic third ventriculostomy
with choroid plexus cauterization (ETV/CPC) in pediatric hydrocephalus: acomprehensive study from south of Vietnam
A-0110 Flash Kim KH (KOR): Clinical outcome of endoscopic procedure in patients with shunt
malfunction
A-0158 Flash Umaba R (JPN): Long-term outcome of pediatric ventriculoperitoneal shunt surgery: asingle-center study
A-0006 Flash Tan L (SGP): Outcomes comparing Ultrasound-guided VP shunt placement andFreehand insertion
A-0024 Flash Nomura S (JPN): Risk factors for slit ventricle in the hydrocephalus children treatedwith ventriculo-peritoneal shunt
Q&A

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16:00-16:40
Oral presentation 9: HYDROCEPHALUS 2
Chairpersons: Miyake K (JPN), Thang LN (VMN)
A-0002 Oral Yoo D-S (KOR): Pressure volume index withdrawal could be express by linear curveand it also has a significant prognostic value.

2nd dayA-0044 Flash Arihara M (JPN): Volume of cerebrospinal fluid removal by ventricular reservoir
tapping for posthemorrhagic hydrocephalus in very low birth weight infants.
A-0100 Flash Yamagiwa Y (JPN): Ventriculoperitoneal (VP) Shunt-Associated Abdominal
Pseudocysts: two cases successfully treated by long term antibiotics therapy withexternal CSF drainage.
A-0106 Flash Hermanto Y (IDN): CT studies on disproportionally dilated lateral ventricles in infants
with congenital hydrocephalus in Bandung, Indonesia
A-0124 Flash Yudhadi AR (IDN): Problems in management of congenital hydrocephalus in rural
areas of Garut-Indonesia: three years working experience
A-0131 Flash Alojan A (SAU): The impact of strict shunt protocol on reducing the infection rate
following shunt placement: a prospective cohort study
A-0146 Flash Wittayanakorn N (THA): Preferences in the diagnosis and treatment of pediatrichydrocephalus among Thai neurosurgeonsA-0041 Flash Torio JE (PHL): Ventriculoperitoneal shunt insertion as primary surgical management
for pediatric idiopathic intracranial hypertension in low- and middle-income
countries: a case report and review of related literature
A-0114 Flash Lazuardy MA (IDN): Treatment of pediatric shunt infections in INDONESIA: a singlecenter experience
A-0056 Flash Joko M (JPN): Diagnosis and treatment of cerebrospinal fluid leakage in children
Q&A

17:20-18:20
Educational session 3: From basic to advanced management—Pediatric epilepsy
Chairpersons: Cai L (CHN), Kunii N (JPN)
17:20-17:40

Weiner HL (USA): Evolution of Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery over 25 years

17:40-17:55

Heppner P (NZL): Pediatric epilepsy surgery in Asia-Australasia

17:55-18:05

Iwasaki M (JPN): Pediatric epilepsy surgery in Japan

18:05-18:15

Cai L (CHN): Diconnection surgery in pediatric intractable epilepsy

18:15-18:25

Phi JH (KOR): Preoperative focus localization and surgery in pediatric epilepsy

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Poster session 1
Chairpersons: Miyairi Y (JPN), Kurimoto M (JPN)

A-0081 Alojan A (SAU): Unusual presentation of Dandy Walker syndrome as cervico-thoracic
syrinx: Case report and literature review

2nd dayA-0140 Lim M (MYS): Surgical approaches for benign craniovertebral tumours in paediatricpatients: A local experience analysis

A-0181 Yamanaka T (JPN): A case of intractable hydrocephalus due to choroid plexus hyperplasia
associated with 9p tetrasomy/hexasomy mosaic
A-0084 Nakanishi Y (JPN): Limited dorsal myeloschisis associated with intramedullary infantile
hemangioma in the conus medullaris: a case report
A-0068 Shimizu T (JPN): A case of Alagille syndrome associated with craniosynostosis
A-0082 Yamada H (JPN): Helmet Therapy for brachycephaly
A-0155 Tran D (VNM): Intrinsic brainstem epidermoid CYST. a rare case report
A-0021 Jung T (KOR): Radiologic follow-up of ruptured arachnoid cysts with or without hemorrhage
A-0023 Biroe T (IDN): Surgical management of pediatric middle cranial fossa large arachnoid cyst
associated with hemiparesis: case report

16:10-16:40
Poster session 2
Chairpersons: Ishida J (JPN), Yamanaka T (JPN)
A-0059 Tan A (SGP): Novel use of Gamma Knife Radiosurgery in the treatment of cerebral
Hepatoblastoma metastasis
A-0075 Park S (KOR): Staged operation with Ommaya reser voir placement for cystic
craniophrayngioma
A-0107 Ujat A (MYS): Smooth muscle tumor post Ebstein Barr virus infection in patient with likely
primary immunodeficiency disorder
A-0111 Ujat A (MYS): High grade tumor mimicking vascular anomaly

A-0139 Zakaria E (MYS): The invisible culprit: A case of unexplained communicating hydrocephalus
in a toddler as the first presentation of an intracranial teratoma
A-0179 Chen S (TWN): The Role of Heat Shock Protein 70 in Stemness and Drug Resistance ofMedulloblastoma
A-0180 Wu Y (SGP): Giant supratentorial brain tumours: case series from a Singapore children’s
hospital

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A-0119 Zakaria E (MYS): Two case studies describing rapid growth of childhood intracranial
teratoma4th Congress of Asian-Australasian Society for Pediatric
Neurosurgery (AASPN 2023 Yokohama, Japan)
Theme: Controversies in Pediatric Neurosurgery

Program
17:20-17:50
Poster session 3
Chairpersons: Oyoshi T (JPN), Tamura G (JPN)
A-0145 Sun Y (CHN): Surgical management of drug-refractory epilepsy associated with GATOR1
variation related malformation of cortical development

2nd day

A-0105 Ujat A (MYS): Child with unexplained visual loss – Rare vascular compression on anterior
optic pathway
A-0054 Kadono Y (JPN): A case of ruptured pediatric cervical perimedullary arteriovenous fistula
treated with endovascular embolization.
A-0157 Ko J (KOR): Massive intracerebral hemorrhage caused by a cavernous malformation

17:50-18:20
Poster session 4
Chairpersons: Ito M (JPN), Kono M (JPN)
A-0099 Chung Y (KOR): A Case of traumatic orbital roof fracture with a good outcome in young
children due to stick of traditional small hand drum(percussion instrument)
A-0147 Biroe T (IDN): Case report : management of traumatic supra and infra tentorial epidural
hematoma in pediatric caseA-0057 Eric Nyam T (TWN): Huge intracranial abscess causing significant mass effect andneurologic deficit with lumbar spine extension after ENT sinusectomy
A-0199 Wiyanjana K (IDN): Surgical Nuance of Lumbosacral Lipomyelocystocele with Tethered
Cord in 6-Month-Old Patient
A-0156 Tran D (VNM): Biopsy in diffuse brainstem glioma: results of 15 cases at Viet DUC Hospital
A-0062 Foo A (SGP): Robot-guided stereotactic biopsy - results of a single centre experience

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3rd day

Room A
8:30-9:30
Symposium 7: Tethered cord syndrome: how to diagnose, when and how to operate?
Chairpersons: Kuo MF (TWN), Yoshifuji K (JPN)AASPN faculty lectures
Seow WT (SGP): Diagnosis, surgical procedure, and prevention of re-tethering

8:45-8:55

Hayashi T (JPN): Diagnosis, surgical procedure, and prevention of re-tethering

8:55-9:05

Kusuma AA (IND): How I manage tethered cord syndrome

9:05-9:15

Zaw HH (MMR): How I manage tethered cord syndrome

9:15-9:30

Discussion

3rd day

8:30-8:45

9:30-10:40
Symposium 8: Surgery for pediatric hypertonia
Chairpersons: Xiao Bo (CHN), Kishima H (JPN)
9:30-9:50

Invited lecture
Pettorini B (UK): Rhizotomy vs. Intrathecal Baclofen treatment (ITB), how to start
spasticity unit
AASPN faculty lectures
Horisawa S (JPN): ITB in Asia-Australasia

10:10-10:30

Xiao B (CHN): Neurophysiology and surgery of dorsal rhizotomy

10:30-10:40

Discussion

10:50-11:40✿ Invited lecture: Neurofluid: a new concept of the CNS fluid dynamics
Chairpersons: Akai T (JPN), Hayashi Y (JPN)
10:50-11:20

Miura M (JPN): Neurofluid (basic): its extra-vascular fluid pathway

11:20-11:40

Takahashi K (JPN): Neurofluid (clinical): pediatric posttraumatic low ICP syndrome

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9:50-10:10

4th Congress of Asian-Australasian Society for Pediatric
Neurosurgery (AASPN 2023 Yokohama, Japan)
Theme: Controversies in Pediatric Neurosurgery

Program
11:40-12:40
Symposium 9: Management of neonatal intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) & subsequenthydrocephalus
Chairpersons: Heppner P (NZL), Ishizaki R (JPN)
11:40-11:55

Invited lectureThomale UW(DEU): The latest management of neonatal IVH in Europe
AASPN faculty lectures

3rd day

11:55-12:10

Park YS (JPN): Management of neonatal IVH in Japan

12:10-12:25

Sobana M (IND): Management of neonatal IVH in low-middle income countries (LMIC)

12:25-12:40

Discussion

12:50-13:50
Meet experts 3 (Luncheon seminar):
Surgery for pediatric congenital deformative craniovertebral junction (CVJ) lesions
Chairpersons: Nakase H (JPN), Ogiwara H (JPN)
12:50-13:10

Brockmeyer DL (USA): Complex deformative CVJ surgery in children

13:10-13:25

Alias A (MYS): Anterior or posterior approach to complex CVJ lesions in children

13:25-13:40

Ando R (JPN): Management of complex CVJ surgery in children

13:40-13:50

Discussion

14:00-15:10
Symposium 10: Moyamoya disease: what is the best practice?
Chairpersons: Kim SK (KOR), Hara S (JPN)

Room A

14:00-14:15

Invited lecture
Kuroda S (JPN): Japanese Guideline of Moyamoya disease

14:15-14:30

Invited lecture
Smith ER (USA): Urinary biomarkers of moyamoya disease
AASPN faculty lectures

14:30-14:45

Kuo MF (TWN): Management of pediatric moyamoya disease in Asia

14:45-14:55

Dorjsuren B (MNG): First Moyamoya surgery in Mongolia

14:55-15:10

Discussion

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15:10-17:00✿ Special session: Controversies in surgical management of pediatric brain tumors
Chairpersons: Ra YS (KOR), Alias A (MYS), Yamamoto T (JPN)
1: What is the best practice for pediatric craniopharyngioma?
15:10-15:20

Constantini S (ISR): Answer

15:20-15:30

Kim SD (KOR): Answer

15:30-15:40

Gong J (CHN): Answer

15:40-15:50

Boop F(USA): Answer

15:50-16:00

Discussion

16:00-16:10

Jallo G (USA): Answer

16:10-16:20

Saito R (JPN): Answer

16:20-16:30

Discussion

3rd day

2: Convection Enhanced Delivery in Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG): does it the way to go?

3: Low grade glioma as an incidentaloma: Surgery or observation?
16:30-16:40

Thomale UW (DEU): Answer

16:40-16:50

Baticulon R (PHL): Answer

16:50-17:00

Discussion

17:00-17:10✿ Closing remarks

Shirane R, Morota N

Room C
8:30-9:45
Educational session 4: From basic to advanced management—surgery for syndromic, complex
craniosynostosis
Chairpersons: Thu M (MMR), Usami K (JPN)Ahn ES (USA): Endoscopic vs. open surgery: Long-term outcomes

8:45-9:00

DiRocco F (FRA): Management of associated tonsillar herniation

9:00-9:15

Sun P (USA): Minimally invasive craniosynostosis surgery

9:15-9:30

Thanh Can DD (VNM): How I operate complex craniosynostosis

9:30-9:45

Tamada I (JPN): How I operate complex craniosynostois

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8:30-8:45

4th Congress of Asian-Australasian Society for Pediatric
Neurosurgery (AASPN 2023 Yokohama, Japan)
Theme: Controversies in Pediatric Neurosurgery

Program
9:50-10:40
Symposium 11: Intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring (IONM)
Chairpersons: Shim KW(KOR), Ihara S (JPN)
9:50-10:10

Invited lecture
Sala F (ITA): Evolution of intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring in pediatricneurosurgery
AASPN faculty lectures

10:10-10:20

Takatani T (JPN): IONM in brain surgery in Asia-Australasia

10:20-10:30

Usami K (JPN): IONM in pediatric spinal surgery

10:30-10:40

Discussion

3rd day

11:40-12:40
Oral presentation 10: DYSRAPHISM
Chairpersons: Kimiwada T (JPN), Kong V (KHM)
A-0118 Oral Lee JY (KOR): Myelomeningocele as an anomaly of secondary neurulation
A-0133 Oral Kimiwada T (JPN): Is tethered cord release recommended to maintain or improveurinary tract function in patients with myelomeningocele?
A-0007 Flash Makino K (JPN): A case of thoracic meningomyelocele associated with mature
teratoma
A-0083 Flash Sendjaja A (IDN): Neural Tube Defects cases in an Indonesian Referral Hospital : A
5-Year Epidemiological Study
A-0103 Flash Mya Phyu A (MMR): Terminal Myelocystocele cases, personal experience inNorthokkalapa General Hospital, Myanmar and Ibaraki Children’s Hospital, Japan
A-0163 Flash King SH (TWN): Time window for neurosurgical management of currarino
syndrome: case illustration
A-0178 Flash Zhao Q (CHN): Occurrence and related treatment of Tethered cord in children withAnorectal malformation
A-0096 Flash Ogiwara H (JPN): Prevention of retethering in untethering surgery of a tight filum
terminale
A-0095 Flash Kono M (JPN): The optimal timing to record the baseline of intraoperative
bulbocavernosus reflex monitoring
A-0136 Flash Ito M (JPN): Image overlay surgery attempt of spinal dysraphism
A-0193 Flash Zaragita N (IDN): Human tail with tethered cord management: experience in two
cases
A-0173 Flash Shimoji K (JPN): Two cases of vanishing cerebellum associated withmyelomeningocele

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Q&A

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12:50-13:50
Meet experts 4 (Luncheon seminar):
How to start up intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring in pediatric neurosurgery
Chairpersons: Kong V (KHM), Sugano H (JPN)
12:50-13:10

Sala F (ITA): Brain surgery: motor, sensory & language mapping

13:10-13:30

Weiner HL (USA): Epilepsy Surgery for Children: focus versus network

13:30-13:50

Takatani T (JPN): Spinal surgery: motor, sensory & urinary function

Chairpersons: Sugano H (JPN), Nomura S (JPN)
A-0060 Oral Uda T (JPN): Appropriate use of different surgical approaches and surgicaloutcomes in hemispherotomy

3rd day

14:00-14:40
Oral presentation 11 : EPILEPSY 1

A-0005 Oral Jiang W (CHN): Quantitative differences in triggered electromyography during
selective dorsal rhizotomy in children with spastic cerebral palsy of different motor
functionsA-0135 Flash Said Mogutham NN (MYS): Predicting efficacy of vagal nerve stimulation (VNS)
surgery among medically refractory pediatric epilepsy patients in hospital Tunku
Azizah (HTA): a cohort observational study
A-0011 Flash Fujimoto A (JPN): Finger movement functions remain in the ipsilesional hemisphereand compensation by the contralesional hemisphere might not be expected after
hemispherotomy -pre- and post-hemispherotomy evaluations in 8 casesA-0012 Flash Zhao R (CHN): Safety, accuracy and efficacy of robot-assisted stereoelectroencephalography in children of different ages
A-0079 Flash Yindeedej V (JPN): Merit of endoscopic posterior approach for total callosotomy
A-0086 Flash Mitsuhashi T (JPN): Detection of absence seizures using a glasses-type eye tracker
A-0015 Flash Zhan Q (CHN): Short-term change of tibial torsion in children with spastic cerebral
palsy after selective dorsal rhizotomy
Q&A

14:40-15:30
Oral presentation 12: EPILEPSY 2
Chairpersons: Murakami N (JPN), Fujimoto A (JPN)

A-0035 Oral Kim D-S (KOR): Long-term outcome of resective epilepsy surgery in patients with
Lennox-Gastaut syndrome
A-0090 Flash Sugano H (JPN): Proper therapy selection improves epilepsy outcomes in patientswith multilobar Sturge–Weber syndrome

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A-0020 Oral Mispan K (MYS): Clinical outcome of epilepsy surgery of the temporal lobe inpediatric group: a retrospective cohort study

4th Congress of Asian-Australasian Society for Pediatric
Neurosurgery (AASPN 2023 Yokohama, Japan)
Theme: Controversies in Pediatric Neurosurgery

Program
A-0134 Flash Chen H-H (TWN): Epilepsy surgery outcome for long-term epilepsy-associated tumors(LEATs)A-0144 Flash Nam Thang L (VNM): Results of treatment of intractable epilepsy withhemispherotomy surgery at Vietnam National Hospital of Pediatrics
A-0150 Flash Tamura G (JPN): Characteristics of the “super responders” to vagus nerve stimulationin pediatric intractable epilepsy
A-0198 Flash Iimura Y (JPN): Hemispherectomy at less than 8 months of age contributes to earlier
acquisition of language and motor functions
Q&A

3rd day

15:30-16:10
Oral presentation 13: ARACHNOID CYSTChairpersons: Ohe N (JPN), Tsurubuchi T (JPN)
A-0053 Oral Huang P-C (TWN): Arachnoid cyst presenting psychotic disorders in pediatricpopulation: case series and systemic literature review
A-0115 Oral Liu Y (CHN): Absence of membranous obstruction in the posterior fossa for pediatricblake's pouch cyst with hydrocephalus
A-0018 Flash Winardi W (TWN): Prepontine arachnoid cyst in an 8-month-old infant presenting
with third and fourth cranial nerve palsy
A-0027 Flash Murakami N (JPN): Expanding ventricular diverticulum overlying the cerebral
hemisphere through an open-lip schizencephalic cleft: a presentation of two
pediatric cases
A-0031 Flash Matsumoto S (JPN): Endoscopic treatment for symptomatic suprasellar arachnoid
cysts in children; a single center experience
A-0040 Flash Uematsu K (JPN): An infantile case of symptomatic cerebellopontine angle arachnoid
cyst treated with microsurgical fenestration.
A-0071 Flash Akutagawa K (JPN): Surgical treatment of a rare case of lateral thoracic
meningocele.
A-0149 Flash Kim T (JPN): Surgical treatment and developmental evaluation in primar yinterhemispheric arachnoid cysts with dysgenesis of the corpus callosum
Q&A

16:10-16:50
Oral presentation 14: OTHERS
Chairpersons: Miyagawa T (JPN), Kagawa N (JPN)

Room C

A-0034 Flash Z h e n g Y ( S G P ) : M a n a g e m e n t o f f i r s t r e c u r r e n c e o r p r o g r e s s i o n o fcraniopharyngioma after resection alone in the pediatric population: a systematic
review and individual-participant data meta-analysis
A-0043 Flash Ishizaki R (JPN): The utility of prone flexion MRI after filum terminale transection
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A-0188 Oral Heppner P (NZL): Validation of the Kitea implantable ICP monitoring system in achronic sheep model
A-0003 Flash Koirala S (NPL): Scope of pediatric neurosurger y as a subspeciality in aneurosurgical referral centre of a low income country
A-0061 Flash Miyagawa T (JPN): Intracranial pressure based decision making: Prediction ofsuspected increased intracranial pressure with machine learning
A-0048 Flash Nagakura M (JPN): A case of craniometaphyseal dysplasia successfully treated bypreoperative study using a 3D printerA-0069 Flash Zheng E (JPN): Regression of periventricular anastomosis after indirect
revascularization in pediatric patients with moyamoya disease

A-0175 Flash Zhao Q (CHN): Clinical study on hybrid operation for brain arteriovenous
malformations in children
A-0176 Flash Watanabe C (JPN): A case of a large fenestrated aneurysm of the vertebrobasilar
junction in a 5-year-old boy treated with stent-assisted coil embolization.

3rd day

A-0080 Flash Adachi K (JPN): A case of cerebellar hemorrhage in a newborn: cerebellar
hemorrhage association with suspected arterial dissection of the posterior inferior
cerebellar artery

A-0194 Flash Fuad N (MYS): Pediatric basilar aneurysm: surgical decision-making and technicalnuances for optimal management – a case report
Q&A

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