Advances and Technical Standards in Neurosurgery

Prof. Di Rocco is an internationally recognized pediatric neurosurgeon who has performed more that 12,000 neurosurgical operations on brain and spinal cord tumors, hydrocephalus, arachnoid cysts, craniosynostosis, cerebral and spine malformations (hemimegalencephaly, cortical dysplasia, lipomyelomeningocele, myelomeningocele, spinal lipoma, Chiari type I malformation), neurophacomatoses and epileptic disorders. Since May 2014, Prof Concezio Di Rocco has moved to Hannover, Germany to become the Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at the International Neuroscience Institute (INI).He is the main Editor of Child’s Nervous System, the Official Journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery, European Journal for Pediatric Neurosurgery, Japanese Society for Pediatric Neurosurgey, Korean Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery, Brasilian Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery.

• On the burden of childhood cancer across the globe.- Brain stem surgery: functional anatomy and role of intraoperative neurophysiology.-MR protocols for pediatric neurosurgical conditions: an update guide for neurosurgeons.-hiari malformation and syringomyelia in Children: Classification and treatment options.-Interdisciplinary orbital surgery - lessons learned from a pediatric cohort.-Optic Pathway gliomas: the trends of basic research to reduce the impact of the disease on visual function.-Endoscopic endonasal surgery for uncommon pathologies of the sellar and parasellar regions.- Surgical Approaches to the third ventricle. An update.-Surgical approaches to the mesencephalon.-Treatment strategy and current results of petroclival meningiomas.-Parasagittal meningiomas: Simpson rate of resection and recurrence rare.-Occipital transtentorial approach to pineal/para-pineal tumors.-Epilepsy Surgery in Children: Cortical Dysplasia.-Callosotomy.- Intracranial Blister Aneurysms.- Pediatric spinal AVM.