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Department of Neurosurgery Hôpital ERASME

Université Libre de Bruxelles Brussels, BELGIUM

Benoit JM. PIROTTE, MD, PhD

ACADEMIC CURRICULUM VITAE

January 2010

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1) PERSONAL INFORMATION

Family name : PIROTTE

First name & initials : Benoît JM

Professional Address : Professor Benoit JM. PIROTTE

Department of neurosurgery Erasme hospital - Hôpital Erasme Université Libre de Bruxelles 808 route de Lennik 1070 Bruxelles, BELGIUM Tel : +3225553768 Fax : +3225553755 Email : bpirotte@ulb.ac.be

Native language : French

Spoken languages : Fluent english, basic dutch 2) SCHOLARSHIP

Primary and secondary school :

1968-1974 : SAINT-GEORGES ROYAL ATHENEE (Saint-Georges, BELGIUM) 1974-1978 : SAINT-QUIRIN COLLEGE (Latin-Mathematics Section) (Huy, BELGIUM) 1978-1980 : SAINT-SERVAIS COLLEGE (Latin-Mathematics Section) (Liège, BELGIUM)

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Medical school :

1980-1987 : Faculty of Medicine, University of Liège, BELGIUM (CUM GRANDE LAUDE x 7) Diploma (Doctor in Medicine) on 15/07/1987

1982-1985 : Teaching student (Dept of Human Anatomy, University of Liège, BELGIUM) (Prof MA. GEREBTZOFF, Prof A. de SCOVILLE) 1985-1987 : Teaching student (Dept of Neurosurgery, University of Liège, BELGIUM) (Prof J. BONNAL)

Training in neurosurgery :

1987-1993 : Dept of Neurosurgery, Hôpital Erasme, Université Libre de Bruxelles Brussels, BELGIUM (Prof J. BROTCHI)

1988 : Two months, Dept of neurosurgery, Hôpital Lariboisière Paris, FRANCE (Prof B. GEORGE) 1990 : One month, Dept of Neurosurgery, YALE University Hospital New Haven, CT, USA (Prof D. SPENCER) 1992-1995 : Three-year-program European Course on Pediatric Neurosurgery (ESPN) Academic Board Certification in Neurosurgery :

03/11/1993 : Thesis entitled : «Contribution of stereotactic PET to brain biopsies - Apport de la TEP

stéréotaxique dans les biopsies cérébrales » (CUM GRANDE LAUDE)

Continuing education in neurosurgery and visits to foreign centers :

1995 : One month, Dept of neurosurgery, UCSF University Hospital San Francisco, CA, USA (Prof Ph. GUTTIN) 2001-2003 : Monthly, Dept of pediatric neurosurgery, Hôpital Necker-Enfants-Malades Paris, FRANCE (Prof A. PIERRE-KAHN) 2003-2004 : Two weeks, Dept of pediatric neurosurgery Great Ormmond Street Hospital, University College of London London, UK (Prof R. HAYWARD) 2005 : One month, Dept of neurosurgery University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Little Rock, AR, USA (Prof O. AL-MEFTY) 2005 : St-LOUIS Course on Skull Base Surgery Saint-Louis, MI, USA (Profs O. AL-MEFTY & H. BERTALANFFY)

PhD Thesis :

14/06/2006 : Main thesis : « Integration of functional imaging in image-guided neurosurgery - Intégration de

l’imagerie fonctionnelle dans la neurochirurgie guidée par l’image »

21/09/2006 : Accessory thesis : « Characterisation with DNA microarrays of the genetic expression profile of

human meningiomas recurring after surgery or radiosurgery - Caractérisation par Micropuces

d’ADN du Profil d’Expression Génomique des Méningiomes Humains Récidivants après

Chirurgie ou Radiochirurgie » (Promotors : Profs J. BROTCHI & M. LEVIVIER, Faculté de Médecine, Université Libre de Bruxelles, BELGIUM)

Current acamedic level :

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« Professeur-Agrégé de l’Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium » since 21.09.06.

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3) MEMBERSHIP OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES Belgian Society for Neurosurgery (BSN) Currently Vice-President Belgian Pain Society (BPS) Belgian Association for NeuroOncology (BANO) Benelux Neuromodulation Society (BNS) Anglo-French Pediatric neurosurgeons Association Société de Neurochirurgie de Langue Française (SNCLF) Société Française de Neurochirurgie (SFNC) European Association for Neuro-oncology (EANO) European Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery (ESPN) European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS) Currently Belgian Deleguate World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS) American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) International Society for Pediatric Neuro-oncology (ISPNO) International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) Board member Belgian Society for Neurosurgery (BSN) Currently Vice-President

Currently WFNS National Delegate Belgian Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery (BSSFN) Member of the Peer-Review Board

Benelux Neuromodulation Society (BNS) Pediatric Committee of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies

Rehabilitation Committee of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies

International reviewer World Neurosurgery Michael APUZZO, MD (editor in chief), Los Angeles, since 2009 Neurosurgery, Nelson OYESIKU, MD (editor in chief), Atlanta, since 2009 Neurosurgical Review, Helmut Bertalanffy (editor in chief), Zurich, since 2008 Neuroimage

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

4) PARTICIPATION IN THE ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS National

1. First Belgian Workshop on Pediatric Neurosurgery. Brain tumors. Ostende, 16-17 juin 2001.

2. 2nd Belgian Workshop on Pediatric Neurosurgery. Hydrocephalus. Spa, 5– 6 oct 2002.

3. 3rd Belgian Workshop on Pediatric Neurosurgery. Craniosynostoses. Ostende, 5–6 oct 2004.

4. 4th Belgian Workshop on Pediatric Neurosurgery. Functal Neurosurgery. Spa, 5-7 mai 2006.

5. 5th Belgian Workshop on Pediatric neurosurgery. The Thetered Cord. Spa, 20 sept, 2008. International

6. Premier Forum sur la relation médecin-malade en neurochirurgie : aspects éthiques et juridiques actuels, Chamonix, France, 19-21 janvier 2003. aspects éthiques et juridiques actuels, Courchevel, France, 19-21 janvier 2004. aspects éthiques et juridiques actuels, Courchevel, France, 24-29 janvier 2005. aspects éthiques et juridiques actuels, Courchevel, France, 24-29 janvier 2006. aspects éthiques et juridiques actuels, Courchevel, France, 20-28 janvier 2007.

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aspects éthiques et juridiques actuels, Courchevel, France, 20-28 janvier 2008. aspects éthiques et juridiques actuels, Courchevel, France, 17-24 janvier 2009.

7. 17-18 novembre 2006 : Annual Meeting of the Benelux Neuromodulation Society : Legal and ethical aspects of neuromodulation, Maastricht, The Netherlands.

8. Chairmen of Scientific Plenary Session on Chiari Malformation, Joint Meeting of the begian and Swiss Societies for neurosurgery, Pontresina, CH, March 2002.

9. Chairmen of Scientific Plenary Session on Image-guided Neuroendoscopy, World Conference on Neuroendoscopy, Versailles, France, May 2007.

10. November 9-10th 2007: Organiser of the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Benelux Neuromodulation Society : A better

understanding of the mechanisms of pain and neuromodulation, Brussels, Belgium.

11. Chairmen of Scientific Plenary Session on Vascular Neurosurgery, Annual Neuromeeting, University of Sienna, Sienna, Italy, may 19th, 2008.

5) PRESENTATIONS AT SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS

1. PIROTTE B, WALTREGNY A. Approche chirurgicale du Parkinson. Société Belge de Neurochirurgie, Louvain-en-Woluwe, 12 mars 1986.

2. PIROTTE B, WALTREGNY A, MAULA AH. Topométrie de zones fonctionnelles au scanner. Société Belge de

Neurochirurgie, Louvain-en-Woluwe, 12 mars 1986.

3. BORN J.D., PIROTTE B., FLANDROY P., REMACLE JM., HANS P. Les anévrysmes artériels intracrâniens : Attitude thérapeutique. Journée d'Enseignement Post-Universitaire, Liège-Sart Tilman, (ULg), May 18, 1986.

4. PIROTTE B, LENELLE J, STEVENAERT A, REZNIK M. Le Schwannome malin: à propos de 3 cas. Société

Belge de Neurochirurgie, Louvain-en-Woluwe, 10 mars 1987.

5. PIROTTE B, COLLIGNON J, FLANDROY P. Les métastases cérébrales inaugurales: étude clinique et radiologique. Sections Septentrionales des Sociétés Françaises de Neurochirurgie et de Neuroradiologie, Péronne, France, 23 avril 1987.

6. PIROTTE B, JOACHIM M., BORN J.D., COLLIGNON J., FLANDROY P. Signes ophtalmologiques des anévrysmes artériels intracraniens : Revue de 200 cas. Sections Septentrionales des Sociétés Françaises de

Neurochirurgie et de Neuroradiologie, Péronne, (France), October 10, 1987.

7. PIROTTE B, REMACLE JM., HANS P., ALBERT A., BORN J.D., BROTCHI J., BONNAL J. Facteurs prédictifs du vasospasme et du devenir des hémorragies méningées (207 cas). Sections Septentrionales des

Sociétés Françaises de Neurochirurgie et de Neuroradiologie, Péronne, (France), April 23, 1988.

8. PIROTTE B, HANS P., RORIVE G., ALBERT A., BORN J.D. Facteurs prédictifs du vasospasme et du devenir des hémorragies méningées (207 cas). Société de Neuroanesthésie-Réanimation de Langue Française, Paris-Montparnasse, (France), November 4, 1988.

9. PIROTTE B, REMACLE JM., HANS P., ALBERT A., BORN J.D., BROTCHI J., BONNAL J. Facteurs prédictifs du vasospasme et du devenir des hémorragies méningées (207 cas). Société Belge de Neurochirurgie,

Antwerpen (UIA), March 26, 1988.

10. PIROTTE B, REMACLE JM., HANS P., ALBERT A., BORN J.D. Facteurs prédictifs du vasospasme et du devenir des hémorragies méningées. Séminaires Neurologiques et Neurochirurgicaux de l'Hôpital de la

Citadelle, Liège, April 25, 1988.

11. PIROTTE B, BALERIAUX D, BROTCHI J, VANDESTEENE A. Lymphomes cérébraux primitifs. Société

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Belge de Neurochirurgie, Leuven, 18 mars 1989.

12. PIROTTE B, FLAMENT-DURAND J, BALERIAUX D, BROTCHI J. Lymphomes cérébraux primitifs : aspects neurochirurgicaux, attitude diagnostique et thérapeutique. Enseignement du 3e cycle de Radiothérapie (ULB), Institut Jules Bordet, Bruxelles, 25 janvier 1990.

13. BROTCHI J, RAFTOPOULOS C, LEVIVIER M, DEWITTE O, PIROTTE B, NOTERMAN J. Lésions de la région pinéale: abord occipito-pariétal trans-tentoriel en décubitus latéral avec volet infra-sagittal. Société de

Neurochirurgie de Langue Française, Paris, France, 4 décembre 1990.

14. PIROTTE B., FLANDROY P., BALERIAUX D., BROTCHI J. Anévrysmes mycotiques opérés : A propos de 2 cas. Réunion du Club Belge des Neuroradiologues, Bruxelles, February 26, 1990.

15. PIROTTE B, FARBER CM, GRAND C, BALERIAUX D, LEVIVIER M, BROTCHI J. Lymphomes cérébraux primitifs : Revue des données actuelles à propos de 15 cas traités. Sections Septentrionales des Sociétés

Françaises de Neurochirurgie et de Neuroradiologie, Péronne, France, 23 mars 1991.

16. BANK WO, BALERIAUX D, MATOS C, DE WITTE O, PIROTTE B, FLAMENT-DURAND J, BROTCHI J. Metastatic choroïd plexus papilloma. Annual Meeting of the Western Neuroradiological Society, Laguna Niguel, CA, USA, 20 octobre 1991.

17. PIROTTE B, GANGJI D, HASSID S, FLAMENT-DURAND J, VANDESTEENE A, BALERIAUX D, BROTCHI J. Primary Ewing's Sarcoma of the skull base. Société Belge de Neurochirurgie, Bruxelles, 2 mars 1991.

18. PIROTTE B, GOLDMAN S, LEVIVIER M, SALMON I, BALERIAUX D, HILDEBRAND J, BROTCHI J. PET-guided stereotactic biopsy: comparison of PET, CT and histological data. European Society for Stereotactic

and Functional Neurosurgery, (ESSFN), Stockholm, Suède, 3 septembre 1992.(Abstract in: Acta

Neurochirurgica, Vol 117, Fasc. 1-2, p. 100, n°67, 1992).

19. LEV!V!ER M, GOLDMAN S, B!DAUT L, LUXEN A, STANUS E, P!ROTTE B, BROTCH! J. Positron emission tomography (PET)-guided stereotaxic brain biopsy: report of the technique and preliminary results. Société Belge de Neurochirurgie, Bruxelles, 7 mars 1992. [Abstract in: Acta Neurologica Belgica, 1992, 92:183].

20. PIROTTE B, LEVIVIER M, RAFTOPOULOS C, FLAMENT-DURAND J, NOTERMAN J, BROTCHI J. Y a-t-il une place pour la chirurgie dans les gliomes du tronc cérébral ? A propos de 20 cas. 2nd Joint Meeting of the

Belgian Neurological and Neurosurgical Societies, Bruxelles, 17 october 1992. [Abstract in: Acta Neurologica

Belgica, 1993, 93: 53].

21. PIROTTE B, BALERIAUX D, NOTERMAN J, BROTCHI J. Lipomas of the brainstem: report of 2 cases. 2nd

Joint Meeting of the Belgian Neurological and Neurosurgical Societies, Bruxelles, 17 october 1992. [Abstract in: Acta Neurologica Belgica, 1993, 93: 53].

22. LEVIVIER M, PIROTTE B, GOLDMAN S, BROTCHI J. The role of stereotactic biopsy in the management of brain stem tumors. 2nd Joint Meeting of the Belgian Neurological and Neurosurgical Societies, Bruxelles, 17 octobre 1992. [Abstract in: Acta Neurologica Belgica, 1993, 93: 51].

23. PIROTTE B, BALERIAUX D, NOTERMAN J. Dorso-lateral suboccipital transcondylar approach of the cranio-cervical junction: about one case. Société Belge de Neurochirurgie, Bruxelles, 7 mars 1992.

24. BROTCHI J., PIROTTE B., VANDESTEENE A., BALERIAUX D. Surgical treatment of giant intracranial aneurysms with profound hypothermia and circulatory arrest. International Training Course of the World

Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS), Buenos Aires, (Argentina), August, 1992.

25. PIROTTE B, LEVIVIER M, GOLDMAN S, LUXEN A, BIDAUT L, STANUS E, BRUCHER JM, BROTCHI J. Use of PET in stereotactic conditions for brain biopsies. Joint meeting of Belgian, German & Dutch

Neurosurgical Societies: Modern trends and innovative techniques in clinical neurosurgery in adults,

Maastricht, Hollande, 11 février 1993.

26. BROTCHI J, PIROTTE B, DE WITTE O, RAFTOPOULOS C, LEVIVIER M, NOTERMAN J. Surgical treatment of pineal region tumors with a side-down operative field in a three-quarter prone approach. Winter

meeting of the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS), Multimodality treatment for intracranial tumors, Rome, Italie, 20 février 1993.

27. BROTCHI J, RAFTOPOULOS C, DE WITTE O, PIROTTE B, NOTERMAN J. Pineal-tentorial and posterior falcine lesions: operated side-down approach. A series of 21 cases. 61st Annual Meeting of American

Association of Neurological Surgeons, AANS, Boston, MA, USA, 24-29 avril 1993.

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28. GOLDMAN S, LEVIVIER M, BOUQUEY D, BIDAUT L.M, PIROTTE B, BRUCHER JM, LUXEN A, STANUS E, BROTCHI J, HILDEBRAND J. Correlation of glucose metabolism and histopathology of gliomas using PET-guided stereotactic biopsy. 45th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Neurology, New York, NY, USA, 25 avril-1 mai 1993. [Abstract in: Neurology, 1993, 43: A249].

29. PIROTTE B, GOLDMAN S, BRUCHER JM, ZOMOSA G, BALERIAUX D, BROTCHI J, LEVIVIER M. PET in stereotactic conditions increases the diagnostic yield of brain biopsy. XIth Meeting of the World Society for

Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery (WSSFN), Ixtapa, Mexique, 14 octobre 1993.

30. PIROTTE B, GOLDMAN S, BRUCHER JM, BALERIAUX D, BROTCHI J, LEVIVIER M. Apport diagnostique des biopsies stéréotactiques guidées par TEP et TDM. Société de Neurochirurgie de Langue

Française (SNLF), Paris, France, 29 novembre 1993.

31. LEVIVIER M, PIROTTE B, GOLDMAN S, BROTCHI J. Diagnostic yield of PET-guided stereotactic brain biopsy. Experience in 38 cases. Société Belge de Neurochirurgie, Anvers, 13 mars 1993. [Abstract in: Acta

Neurologica Belgica].

32. PIROTTE B, LEVIVIER M, BROTCHI J. Stereotactic brain biopsy in invasive brain tumors. First Meeting of

the Belgian Club of Neuro-oncology, Gand, 01 mai 1993.

33. PIROTTE B, ROUSSEAU JJ, BROTCHI J. Chimioprophylaxie anticomitiale chez les traumatisés craniens. Réunion de l'Epilepsy Club, Marche-En-Famenne, 26 juin 1993.

34. PIROTTE B, JOFFROY A, BROTCHI J. Contrôle de la spasticité invalidante par Baclofen intrathécal : Résultats préliminaires. Société Belge de Neurologie, Bruxelles, 11 décembre 1993.

35. PIROTTE B., ROUSSEAU J.J., BROTCHI J. Chimioprophylaxie anticomitiale chez les traumatisés craniens. Réunion de l'Epilepsy Club, Marche-En-Famenne, (Belgium), June 26, 1993.

36. DAVID P., BALERIAUX D., LIARD A., PIROTTE B., PATAY Z., MATOS C. Rhomboencéphalite à Listeria Monocytogenes rapidement progressive. 2e Réunion commune des Sociétés Française et Italienne de

Neuroradiologie, Ancona, (Italy), June 11, 1993.

37. GILLES M., GUERIT JM., de TOURTCHANINOFF M., JACQUEMOTTE N., DELBECQ J., DEPRE A., PIROTTE B., BROTCHI J. Dissociation between median and tibial nerve somatosensory evoked potentials (SEPs) in brainstem lesions. 13th International Congress of EEG and clinical neurophysiology, Vancouver, British Columbia, (Canada), September 03, 1993. (Electroenceph. Clin. Neurophysiol. N°2, S1-S148).

38. DE WITTE O., CHASKIS C., PIROTTE B., RAFTOPOULOS C., LEVIVIER M., BALERIAUX D., NOTERMAN J., BROTCHI J. Myélopathie cervicarthrosique : Résultats chirurgicaux de 150 patients. VIe

Réunion du Club Français de Neurochirurgie du Rachis, Amiens, (France), September 24, 1993.

39. DEWITTE O., CHASKIS C., PIROTTE B., BROTCHI J. Treatment of Neurological disturbances induced by lumbar spine instability. Congress of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS), Acapulco, (Mexico), October 20, 1993.

40. COOL V, PIROTTE B, LEVIVIER M, GERARD C, DARGENT JL, GOLDMAN S, LUXEN A, HILDEBRAND J, VASSART G, BROTCHI J, VELU T. Characterization of the activity of HS-TK suicide gene transfer for the treatment of glioblastoma. First Meeting of the European Working Group on Human Gene

Transfer and Therapy, Stresa, Italie, 19-22 novembre 1993.

41. PIROTTE B, NOTERMAN J, RAFTOPOULOS C, BALERIAUX D, BROTCHI J. Dorso-lateral, suboccipital, transcondylar approach to the cranio-cervical junction: about 3 cases. Joint meeting of Belgian, German &

Dutch Neurosurgical Societies: Modern trends and innovative techniques in clinical neurosurgery in

adults, Maastricht, Hollande, 11 février 1993.

42. PIROTTE B., RODESCH G., BALERIAUX D., NOTERMAN J., BROTCHI J. Spinal dural AV fistulae : Evaluation of surgical indications in a series of 7 cases. Société Belge de Neurochirurgie, Antwerp, (UIA), March 13, 1993. [Abstract in: Acta Neurologica Belgica, 10, 1993].

43. PIROTTE B, LEVIVIER M, BROTCHI J. La neurochirurgie stéréotaxique. Congrès annuel de l'Association

Francophone des Infirmières de Salle d'Opération (AFISO), Louvain-la-Neuve, 25 avril 1994.

44. PIROTTE B, SCHOLIERS E, BALFROID L, NOTERMAN J, BROTCHI J. Traitement de la spasticité par pompe à Baclofen, prise en charge et nursing en neurochirurgie. Internationaal Neurokongres, Blanckenberge, 13-14 octobre 1994.

45. VALLAEYS C, PIROTTE B, NOTERMAN J, RAFTOPOULOS C, LEVIVIER M, DEWITTE O, BROTCHI J. Technique simple de soustraction continue de liquide céphalo-rachidien par drainage lombaire. Internationaal

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Neurokongres, Blanckenberge, 13-14 octobre 1994.

46. DEBATISSE D, CORNETTE F, CASTERMANS M, WITDOECKT C, RAKET D, PIROTTE B, HOTERMANS JM, MATHY P, BOXUS A, BREVERS C, DEDIEGO M, GUERIT JM. Clinical interest of cognitive potentials P300 in psychotics. International Congress of Neurophysiology, Miami, FL, USA, 29-30 septembre 1994.

47. GOLDMAN S, LEVIVIER M, PIROTTE B, BRUCHER JM, LUXEN A, STANUS E, DETHY S, BROTCHI J, HILDEBRAND J. Comparison between local methionine and glucose metabolism in gliomas using PET-guided stereotactic biopsy. 46th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Neurology, Washington DC, USA, 1-7 mai 1994. [Abstract in Neurology, 1994, 44 (suppl 2): A330-A331].

48. LEVIVIER M, GOLDMAN S, PIROTTE B, BRUCHER JM, BALÉRIAUX D, LUXEN A, HILDEBRAND J, BROTCHI J. Diagnostic yield of stereotactic brain biopsy guided by positron emission tomography with [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose. 1st Congress of the European Association for Neuro-Oncology, Maastricht, Hollande, 15-18 octobre 1994. [Abstract in Journal of Neuro-Oncology, 1994, 21: 1].

49. GOLDMAN S, LEVIVIER M, PIROTTE B, BRUCHER JM, LUXEN A, BROTCHI J, HILDEBRAND J. Methionine and glucose metabolism in gliomas: study on PET-guided stereotactic biopsies. 1st Congress of the

European Association for Neuro-Oncology, Maastricht, Hollande, 15-18 octobre 1994. [Abstract in Journal of

Neuro-Oncology, 1994, 21: 5].

50. SALMON I, RORIVE S, ROMBAUT K, PIROTTE B, HAOT J, BROTCHI J, KISS R. The diagnostic information contributed by quantitative chromatin pattern description in stereotactic biopsies from astrocytic tumors. First European Congress of Neuro-Oncology, Maastricht, Hollande, 15-18 octobre 1994. (J

Neurooncol 21:1, 1994).

51. PIROTTE B, GOLDMAN S, BRUCHER JM, BALERIAUX D, BROTCHI J, LEVIVIER M. Tomographie par émission de positons en conditions stéréotaxiques: apport complémentaire de la [C-11]méthionine par rapport au [F-18]fluorodéoxyglucose dans le guidage des des biopsies cérébrales. Société de Neurochirurgie de Langue

Française (SNLF), Paris, France, 5-7 décembre 1994.

52. COOL V, PIROTTE B, LEVIVIER M, GERARD C, DARGENT JL, GOLDMAN S, LUXEN A, HILDEBRAND J, VASSART G, BROTCHI J, VELU T. Study of the treatment of rat brain gliomas by suicide HS-TK gene transfer. Belgian Association for Cancer Research, Louvain-en-Woluwe, 29 janvier 1994.

53. PIROTTE B, COOL V, LEVIVIER M, GERARD C, DARGENT JL, GOLDMAN S, LUXEN A, HILDEBRAND J, VASSART G, BROTCHI J, VELU T. Herpes Simplex-thymidine kinase suicide gene transfer for the treatment of experimental glioblastoma : Characterization of in vitro and in vivo models. Société Belge de

Neurochirurgie, Leuven, 19 mars 1994.

54. COOL V, PIROTTE B, LEVIVIER M, GERARD C, DARGENT JL, GOLDMAN S, LUXEN A, HILDEBRAND J, BROTCHI J, VELU T. Suicide HS-TK gene transfer as a new approach of cancer treatment. First Meeting of the European Haematology Association, Bruxelles, 2-5 juin 1994.

55. PIROTTE B, COOL V, LEVIVIER M, GERARD C, DARGENT JL, GOLDMAN S, HILDEBRAND J, VELU T, BROTCHI J. Transfer of Herpes Simplex virus thymidine kinase (HS-TK) gene combined with ganciclovir administration fails to efficiently cure 9L glioblastoma in rats. 2nd Meeting of the Belgian Club of Neuro-

oncology, Gand 2 juillet 1994.

56. DEWITTE O., CHASKIS C., PIROTTE B., NOTERMAN J., BROTCHI J. Spondylic myelopathy: Results of surgery in 150 cases. 62nd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS), San Diego, CA, (USA), April 8-14, 1994.

57. PIROTTE B, COOL V, GÉRARD C, LEVIVIER M, DARGENT JL, GOLDMAN S, BROTCHI J, HILDEBRAND J, VELU T. Gancyclovir fails to efficiently cure animals with 9L glioblastoma transduced by the HS-TK suicide gene. 1st Congress of the European Association for Neuro-Oncology, Maastricht, Hollande, 15-18 octobre 1994. [Abstract in Journal of Neuro-Oncology, 1994, 21: 61].

58. COOL V, PIROTTE B, GERARD C, DARGENT JL, LEVIVIER M, GOLDMAN S, BROTCHI J, HILDEBRAND J, VELU T. Gancyclovir (GCV) fails to efficiently treat animals with 9L glioblastoma transduced by the suicide gene coding for the thymidine kinase of the herpes Simplex (HS-TK). Second Meeting of the

European Working Group on Human Gene Transfer and Therapy, Oxford, UK, octobre 1994.

59. COOL V, PIROTTE B, GERARD C, LEVIVIER M, DARGENT JL, GOLDMAN S, BROTCHI J, HILDEBRAND J, VELU T. Failure of Gancyclovir (GCV) to efficiently cure animals with 9L glioblastoma transduced by the thymidine kinase of the herpes Simplex virus (HS-TK) suicide gene. 3rd International

Conference on Gene Therapy of Cancer. San Diego, CA, USA, 10-12 novembre 1994.

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60. RAFTOPOULOS C, PIROTTE B, VANDESTEENE A, VAN BOGAERT P, BROTCHI J. Options in surgical treatment of scaphocephaly: Experience of 23 cases. Collegium Chirurgicum Belgicum, Leuven, 26 novembre 1994.

61. PIROTTE B, RAFTOPOULOS C, SZLYWOWSKI H, BAURAIN M, BROTCHI J. Surgery of craniosynostoses: experience of 60 cases. Collegium Chirurgicum Belgicum, Leuven, 26 novembre 1994.

62. VALLAEYS C., PIROTTE B., NOTERMAN J., RAFTOPOULOS C., LEVIVIER M., DEWITTE O., BROTCHI J. Technique simple de soustraction continue de liquide céphalo-rachidien par drainage lombaire. Internationaal Neurokongres, Blanckenberge, October 13-14, 1994.

63. PIROTTE B, LEVIVIER M, GOLDMAN S, BRUCHER JM, HILDEBRAND J, BROTCHI J. Four-year remission induced by glucocorticoids in primary cerebral lymphoma: case report and review of the litterature. Société Belge de Neurochirurgie, Leuven, 11 mars 1995. [Abstract in: Acta Neurologica Belgica, 1995, 95: 115].

64. PIROTTE B. Traitement de la spasticité sévère par Baclofen intrathécal. Premier Meeting de Neuromodulation

francophone sous l'égide de Medtronic°, Beaune, France, 21-22 octobre 1995.

65. PIROTTE B, HEILPORN A, BROTCHI J, LEVIVIER M. Traitement de la spasticité sévère par Baclofen intrathécal: Intérêt et proposition d’une échelle d’évaluation globale. Société de Neurochirurgie de Langue

Française, Paris, France, 4-6 décembre 1995.

66. PIROTTE B, HEILPORN A, WESEL P, BROTCHI J. Traitement de la spaciticité sévère par pompes à Baclofen. Mardi de la Kinésithérapie de l'ULB, Bruxelles, 17 janvier 1995.

67. PIROTTE B, SELDRAYERS P, BUREAU M, NUTTIN B, GIJBELS J. Contrôle de la spasticité sévère par Baclofen intrathécal: expérience clinique. Colloque interdisciplinaire du Hainaut, Charleroi, 10 février 1995.

68. BECERRA A, PIROTTE B, GOLDMAN S, BROTCHI J, LEVIVIER M. Stereotactic biopsy for mass lesions of the brain stem. Société Belge de Neurochirurgie, Leuven, 11 mars 1995. [Abstract in: Acta Neurologica

Belgica, 1995, 95: 119].

69. LEVIVIER M, PIROTTE B, GOLDMAN S, BECERRA A, BROTCHI J. Stereotactic biopsy guided by PET with [11C]methionine (Met) and [18]fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG): a comparison of the contribution of both tracers. Société Belge de Neurochirurgie, Leuven, 11 mars 1995. [Abstract in: Acta Neurologica Belgica, 1995, 95: 120].

70. HANCQ S, DEWITTE O, LEVIVIER M, PIROTTE B, DAVID P, SALMON I, BROTCHI J. Surgical management of pineal region lesions. Société Belge de Neurochirurgie, Bruxelles, 12 mars 1999.DEBATISSE D, DESFONTAINES Ph, CASTERMANS M, MAASSEN D, PIROTTE B, HOTERMANS JM, RAKET D. Prognostic value of somatosensory evoked potentials (SEP) in failed back surgery. Belgian Pain Society &

Belgian chapter of the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP), Bruxelles, 09 mars 1995.

71. RAKET D, DUQUENNE P, BARO V, LETAWE D, MAASSEN D, PIROTTE B, HOTERMANS JM. Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) for intractable pain: a three-year multidisciplinar experience. Belgian Pain Society &

Belgian chapter of the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP), Bruxelles, 09 mars 1995.

72. PIROTTE B, HEILPORN A, WESEL P, BROTCHI J, LEVIVIER M. Control of severe spasticity with intrathecal baclofen: clinical application. Workshop on New Modalities for Neuromodulation, Knokke-Heist, 22 avril 1995.

73. LEVIVIER M, PIROTTE B, GOLDMAN S, BRUCHER JM, BALERIAUX D, BROTCHI J. Stereotactic PET with [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose improves the diagnostic yield of image-guided brain biopsy. 1995 American

Association of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, USA, 22-27 avril 1995.

74. PIROTTE B, GOLDMAN S, BRUCHER JM, BROTCHI J, LEVIVIER M. Contribution of [C-11]methionine compared to [F-18] fluorodeoxyglucose in stereotatcic PET guidance of brain biopsies. 1995 American

Association of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, USA, 22-27 avril 1995. [Abstract in Journal of Neurosurgery, 1995, 82: 365A].

75. LEVIVIER M, GOLDMAN S, PIROTTE B, BECERRA A, HILDEBRAND J, BROTCHI J. Role of stereotactic positron emission tomography in the guidance of brain biopsy. 10th European Congress of Neurosurgery. Berlin, Allemagne, 7-12 mai 1995.

76. DEBATISSE D., DESFONTAINES Ph., CASTERMANS M., MAASSEN D., PIROTTE B., HOTERMANS JM., RAKET D. Prognostic value of somatosensory evoked potentials (SEP) in failed back surgery. Belgian Pain

Society & Belgian chapter of the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP), Bruxelles, March 09, 1995.

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77. VIOLON P., BROHÉE P., MAVROUDAKIS N., PIROTTE B., MASSAGER N., ZEGERS DE BEYL D., HILDEBRAND J. Central Nervous System vasculitis associated with Crohn's disease. 47th Annual Meeting of

the American Academy of Neurology (AAN), Seattle, (USA), May 1995.

78. JADOT A., VANDEVELDE M., MAGOTTEAUX P., BOLYN S., MAASSEN D., PIROTTE B., RAKET D. Angiomes caverneux intramédullaires : diagnostic et attitude thérapeutique. Société Française de Radiologie, Paris, (France), December 1995.

79. VELU T, COOL V, PIROTTE B, BROTCHI J, VASSART G. Experience of in vivo and in vitro HS-TK gene transfer for the treatment of experimental 9L rat gliosarcoma. Belgian National Meeting: from Gene Transfer to

Gene Therapy, Bruxelles, 21 janvier 1995.

80. COOL V, PIROTTE B, GÉRARD C, DARGENT JL, LEVIVIER M, GOLDMAN S, BROTCHI J, HILDEBRAND J, VELU T. Gene therapy of rats with cerebral 9L glioblastomas using the transfer of the suicide gene coding for the thymidine kinase of the herpes simplex virus (HSV-TK) followed by the administration of gancyclovir (GCV). Forum Télévie, Liège, 16 février 1995.

81. PIROTTE B, COOL V, LEVIVIER M, GÉRARD C, DARGENT JL, GOLDMAN S, HILDEBRAND J, VELU T, BROTCHI J. Transfer of herpes simplex virus thimidine kinase(HS-TK) gene combined with gancyclovir administration fails to efficiently cure 9L glioblastoma in rats. 1995 American Association of Neurological

Surgeons Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, USA, 22-27 avril 1995.

82. COOL V, PIROTTE B, GERARD C, DARGENT JL, LEVIVIER M, BROTCHI J, VELU T. Curative potential of the HSV-thymidine kinase suicide gene transfer for the treatment of rats with cerebral 9L glioblastomas. Colloque Lille-ULB, Lille, France, 30 mai 1995.

83. PIROTTE B, BENNETT M. Facial pain from intracranial lesions: Skull base and CNS neoplasms. Annual

Winter Meeting of the University of Pacific, "Oro-facial pain of multiple origins", Salk Lake City, UT, USA, 27 février 1995.

84. COOL V, PIROTTE B, LEFRANC F, GERARD C, BRUYNS C, BAUDSON N, BROTCHI J, VELU T. The bystander effect associated to herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase (HSVTK) gene transfer is absent in intracerebral tumors and seems to be mainly immune mediated in subcutaneous tumors. Third Meeting of the

European Working Group on Human Gene Transfer and Therapy (EWGT), Barcelone, Espagne, 17-20 novembre 1995.

85. LEFRANC F, PIROTTE B, BAKKUS M, DARGENT JL, BAUDSON N, BROTCHI J, THIELEMANS K, VELU T, COOL V. GM-CSF gene transfer in 9L tumor cells induces a loss of tumorigenicity, a prospective immune response against S.C. and I.C. challenge and a therapeutic antitumoral immune response. Third Meeting

of the European Working Group on Human Gene Transfer and Therapy (EWGT), Barcelone, Espagne, 17-20 novembre 1995.

86. ROSETTI P, PIROTTE B, HILDEBRAND. Lymphomes cérébraux primitifs: traitement par chimiothérapie seule. Société Belge de Neurologie, 14 décembre 1996.

87. PIROTTE B, HEILPORN A, CANTRAINE F, BROTCHI J, LEVIVIER M. Assessment of severe spasticity and selection for intrathecal Baclofen using a Global Handicap Scale. American Neuromodulation Society and first

Meeting of the International Neuromodulation Society, Orlando, FL, USA, 11-19 mars 1996.

88. GOLDMAN S, VIOLON P, DEWITTE O, LEVIVIER M, PIROTTE B, DAMHAUT P, WIKLER D, STANUS E, HILDEBRAND J. PET-FDG in glioma: relationship to local histology and prognostic value in low grade tumor and early after surgery. Society of Nuclear Medicine 43rd Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, USA, 3-6 juin 1996. [Abstract in Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 1996, 37: 21P].

89. LEVIVIER M GOLDMAN S, PIROTTE B, BROTCHI J. Stereotactic brain biopsy guided by positron emission tomography with [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose and [11C]methionine. XII meeting of the European Society for

Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, Milan, Italie, 12-15 juin 1996. [Abstract in Acta Neurochirurgica, 1996, 138: 601-601].

90. PIROTTE B, BROTCHI J. 48 lymphomes cérébraux primitifs traités à ERASME in Série multicentrique française. Société Française de Neurochirurgie, Poitiers, France, 11 et 12 octobre 1996.

91. PIROTTE B, BOLYN S, BRUCHER JM, BALERIAUX D, HOTERMANS JM. Intracranial angiolipomas: specific aspects. 1996 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS), Minneapolis, MA, USA, 27 avril – 2 mai 1996.

92. PIROTTE B, NOTERMAN J, DEWITTE O, RAFTOPOULOS C, BROTCHI J. Posterolateral transcondylar approach for intradural and extradural lesions of the Foramen Magnum : Management of 9 cases. 1996 Annual

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Meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS), Minneapolis, MA, USA, 27 avril – 2 mai 1996.

93. PIROTTE B, NOTERMAN J, DEWITTE O, RAFTOPOULOS C, BROTCHI J. Posterolateral transcondylar approach for intradural and extradural lesions of the Foramen Magnum : Management of 9 cases. 2nd

international Skull Base Congress and the 7th Annual Meeting of the North American Skull Base Society. San Diego, CA, USA, 29 juin – 4 juillet 1996.

94. PIROTTE, B, NOTERMAN J, DEWITTE O, LEVIVIER M, DAVID P, BROTCHI J. Exérèse complète de 9 lésions expansives antéro-latérales du foramen magnum par voie postéro-latérale transcondylaire: Expérience et résultats. Société de Neurochirurgie de Langue Française, Paris, France, 2-4 décembre 1996.

95. PIROTTE B, BOLYN S, BRUCHER JM, HOTERMANS JM. Angiolipoma of the cavernous sinus: MRI, angiographic and peroperative specific aspects. 2nd international Skull Base Congress and the 7th Annual

Meeting of the North American Skull Base Society. San Diego, CA, USA, 29 juin – 4 juillet 1996.

96. PIROTTE B, LEFRANC F, BROTCHI J, VELU T, COOL V. Herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase (HSV-tk) suicide gene transfer in experimental gliosarcoma: the therapeutic potential attributed to the bystander effect seems to be mainly mediated by immune mechanisms. 1996 Annual Meeting of the American Association of

Neurological Surgeons (AANS), Minneapolis, MA, USA, 27 avril-2 mai 1996.

97. PIROTTE B., DEWISPELAERE F., WITDOECKT C., GUERIT JM., NELISSEN X., MAASSEN D. Sténose canalaire acquise du rachis dorsal : Mini-fracture facettaire observée dans 2 cas. Société 9Française de

Neuroradiologie, Imagerie du Rachis, Rachis 96, Lille, (France), March 1996.

98. DEWITTE O., NOTERMAN J.....PIROTTE B., .....: Results of the prospective multicentric study on aneurysmal SAH in Belgium. Société belge de Neurochirurgie, 1996.

99. PIROTTE B, ROSETTI P, LEVIVIER M, DEWITTE O, DEVRIENDT D, BRON D, HILDEBRAND J, BROTCHI J. Primary cerebral lymphomas in 48 immunocompetent patients : retrospective analysis and prospective therapeutic strategy. Société Belge de Neurochirurgie, Bruxelles, 12 mars 1997.

100. LEFRANC F, PIROTTE B, LEVIVIER M, FARBER MC, VANVOOREN JP, DEVRIENDT D, BROTCHI J. Primary cerebral lymphomas in 9 AIDS patients : retrospective analysis and prospective therapeutic strategy. Société Belge de Neurochirurgie, Bruxelles, 12 mars 1997.

101. HANCQ S, DEWITTE O, LEVIVIER M, PIROTTE B, DAVID P, SALMON I, BROTCHI J. Surgical management of pineal region lesions. Société Belge de Neurochirurgie, Bruxelles, 12 mars 1997.

102. PIROTTE B, HILDEBRAND J, BRON D, BROTCHI J. Les lymphomes cérébraux primitifs. Symposium sur les lymphomes extranodaux. Réunion des hématologues de l'ULB (D. BRON), Bruxelles, 25 novembre 1997.

103. PIROTTE B. Intrathecal Baclofen Therapy of spasticity: Technical details - types of equipment. Pan-European

Spasticity Meeting. ECMT. Rome, Italie, 8-9 décembre 1997.

104. PIROTTE B. Intrathecal Baclofen Therapy of spasticity: Complications and trouble shooting. Pan-European

Spasticity Meeting. ECMT. Rome, Italie, 8-9 décembre 1997.

105. PIROTTE B, LEVIVIER M, VENTURA M, HERBAUT AG, BROTCHI J. Functional improvement of severe supraspinal spasticity with lumbar intrathecal Baclofen. Joint section on Functional and stereotactic

Neurosurgery, Congress of Neurological Surgeons, New Orleans, LA, USA, 23-27 octobre 1997.

106. PIROTTE B, LEVIVIER M, VENTURA M, MANTO M, HERBAUT AG, CRICK D, WESEL P, VOORDECKER PH, BROTCHI J. Functional Benefit from Lumbar Intrathecal Baclofen in severe Spasticity of Supraspinal Origin in Adults. XIIIth Meeting of the World Society of Stereotactic and Functional

Neurosurgery, Lyon, France, 1-4 juillet 1997. [Abstract in: Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, 1996-1997, 67: 107]

107. CRICK D, HERBAUT AG, PIROTTE B, VANDESTADT J. Lumbar intrathecal Baclofen reduces pelvic floor spasticity in severe spastic paraparesis. International Pelvic Floor Dysfunctions Society. Rome, Italie, 5-7 juin 1997.

108. PIROTTE B. Contrôle de la spasticité sévère d'origine spinale et supraspinale par Baclofen intrathécal lombaire : évaluation, sélection et résultats. Symposium du service de revalidation neurologique, de l’Hôpital

Brugmann, 24 janvier 1997.

109. PIROTTE B. Advanced treatment in the management of spastic patients: Clinical results. Workshop on

spasticity, Genk, 13 novembre 1997.

110. PIROTTE B. Intrathecal Baclofen Therapy of spasticity: Clinical assessment. Interventional Spasticity therapies

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workshop. ECMT. Genk, 22-23 novembre 1997.

111. PIROTTE B. Intrathecal Baclofen Therapy of spasticity: Spasticity of supraspinal origin. Interventional

Spasticity therapies workshop. ECMT. Genk, 22-23 novembre 1997.

112. PIROTTE B, CATANO A, DUCARNE D. Approches neurochirurgicales de la spasticité: Sélection des patients et évaluation. 3e symposium de revalidation neurologique : La spasticité. Charleroi, 10-11 octobre 1997.

113. LOPEZ E, DAN B, DAVID P, PIROTTE B, DETEMMERMAN D, FRANCO P, SZLIWOWSKI H. Complication tardive d'un craniopharyngiome irradié: Place de l'angio-IRM. Société Belge de Pédiatrie, mars 1997.

114. DAVID PH, BALERIAUX D, PIROTTE B, SZLIWOWSKI H. Garçon de 4 ans: céphalées butales suivies d'une perte de connaissance. Société belge de radiologie pédiatrique, Bruxelles, 14 janvier 1997.

115. DEWITTE O, LEVIVIER M, WIKLER D, DAVID P, VANDESTEENE A, PIROTTE B, SALMON I, GOLDMAN S, BROTCHI J. Résection volumétrique des gliomes, guidée sur la TEP et l'IRM. Société de

Neurochirurgie de Langue Française, Paris, France, 1-3 décembre 1997.

116. LEVIVIER M, PIROTTE B, GOLDMAN S, WIKLER D, DAVID P, SALMON I, BROTCHI J. PET-guided stereotactic brain biopsy using [F-18]fluorodeoxyglucose and [C-11]methionine. XIIIth Meeting of the World

Society of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, Lyon, France, 1-4 juillet 1997. [Abstract in: Stereotactic

and Functional Neurosurgery, 1996-1997, 67: 31]

117. PIROTTE B, GOLDMAN S, DAVID P, WIKLER D, SALMON I, BROTCHI J, LEVIVIER M. Diagnostic yield of image-guided stereotactic biopsy for intrinsic lesions of the brainstem. XIIIth Meeting of the World Society

of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, Lyon, France, 1-4 juillet 1997. [Abstract in: Stereotactic and

Functional Neurosurgery, 1996-1997, 67: 34]

118. PIROTTE B, VAN BOGAERT P, DAVID PH, DETEMMERMAN D, FRANCO P, SARIBAN E, SZLIWOWSKI H, BROTCHI J. Tumeurs de la fosse postérieure de l'enfant : Shunt ou pas shunt ? Société de

Neurochirurgie de Langue Française, Paris, France, 1-3 décembre 1997.

119. PIROTTE B, FRANCO P, VANDENBROECK L, CLOSSET J, DETEMMERMAN D, LOPEZ E, SARIBAN E, SZLIWOWSKI H, BROTCHI J. Massive gastrointestinal hemorrhage in a child with posterior fossa tumor. XXV annual congress of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery, Vérone, Italie, 13-18 septembre, 1997.

120. PIROTTE B., HAUZEUR JPH. Lombosciatalgies. CUMG, Namur, 15-4, 1997.

121. DAVID P, BALERIAUX D, PIROTTE B, SZLIWOWSKI H. Garçon de 4 ans: céphalées butales suivies d'une perte de connaissance. Société belge de radiologie pédiatrique, Bruxelles, 14 janvier 1997.

122. MASSAGER N, GOLDMAN S, PIROTTE B, DAVID P, WILKER D, SALMON I, NAGY I, BROTCHI J, LEVIVIER M. Apport de l'imagerie cérébrale combinée par RMN et TEP dans l'approche des lésions expansives du tronc cérébral : une étude de 25 cas. Société Belge de Neurochirurgie, Bruxelles, 14 mars 1998.

123. PIROTTE B, OCHS G, PENN R, NUTTIN B. Technology of pumps and catheters. 2nd Pan European

Spasticity Meeting, Divonne-les-Bains, France, 25-26 juin 1998.

124. PIROTTE B, OCHS G, PENN R, NUTTIN B. Dose adjustment and quantification of treatment effect. 2nd Pan

European Spasticity Meeting, Divonne-les-Bains, France, 25-26 juin 1998.

125. PIROTTE B, OCHS G, NUTTIN B. Intrathecal Baclofen in spasticity: Patient management and follow-up. 3rd

Pan European Spasticity Meeting, Munich, Germany, 2-3 novembre 1998.

126. PIROTTE B, OCHS G. Intrathecal Baclofen in spasticity: Results in MS patients. 3rd Pan European Spasticity

Meeting, Munich, Germany, 2-3 novembre 1998.

127. MASSAGER N, VOORDECKER P, LEVIVIER M, BROTCHI J, PIROTTE B. Lumbar intrathecal Baclofen for supraspinal spasticity in adults. 4th Meeting of the International Society of Neuromodulation, Luzerne, Suisse, 21-25 octobre 1998.

128. CRICK D, HERBAUT AG, PIROTTE B, VAN DE STADT J. La douleur anale et les spasmes musculaires de la dyssynergie périnéale sont-ils en relation chez le patient spastique. 5e Congrès d'Actualisation des Thérapies

Pelviennes, Roubaix, France, 20 juin 1998.

129. PIROTTE B. Neurostimulators and treatment of spasticity. Belgian College of Surgeons, Genval, 14 novembre 1998.

130. CAMBY I, DE HAUWER C, PIROTTE B, VAN HAM P, BROTCHI J, SALMON I, KISS R. Gastrin

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influences growth and motility of human astrocytic tumor cell lines. Swiss Society of Neuropathology, XVII

International Winter Meeting,Montreux, Suisse, 14-18 mars 1998.

131. LEFRANC F, HILDEBRAND J, DEVRIENDT D, DAVID P, LEVIVIER M, RUTTEN I, BROTCHI J, PIROTTE B. Therapeutic response and quality of life in 42 consecutive immunocompetent patients with primary cerebral lymphomas. Annual Meeting of the European Association of Neuro-oncology, Paris, France, Septembre 1998.

132. PIROTTE B, GOLDMAN S, WIKLER D, DAMHAUT P, DAVID P, SALMON I, BROTCHI J, LEVIVIER M. Comparison of (18F)fluorodeoxyglucose and (11C)methionine in positron emission tomography (PET)-guided stereotactic brain biopsies. Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Seattle, USA, octobre 1998.

133. LEFRANC F, COOL V, DARGENT JL, VELU T, PIROTTE B, BROTCHI J, LEVIVIER M. Potency of immune therapy based on GM-CSF gene transfer in 9L rat gliosarcoma model. Third Congress of the European

Association of Neuro-Oncology, Versailles, France, 13-16 septembre 1998. [Abstract in Journal of Neuro-

Oncology, 1998, 39: 139].

134. LEFRANC F, DAVID P, HEIMAN P, SARIBAN E, BROTCHI J, PIROTTE B. Brain tumors within the first year of life. Analysis of 18 cases. Société Belge de Neurochirurgie, Bruxelles, 14 mars 1998.

135. BROTCHI J., DE WITTE O., PIROTTE B., LEVIVIER M. Assessment of peridural fibrosis in lumbar disc reoperation after use of Adcon-L during primary surgery. ARGOS Meeting, Paris (France), February 6, 1998.

136. HANCQ S., PIROTTE B., VOORDECKER PH., DEWISPELAERE F., WITDOECK C., NELISSEN X., MAASSEN D., BROTCHI J. Thoracic spinal canal stenosis: Functional and anatomical correlations in 3 cases operated under somatosensory evoked potentials monitoring. Société Belge de Neurochirurgie, Bruxelles, 14-3-1998.

137. DEWITTE O., PIROTTE B., LEVIVIER M., BROTCHI J. Assessment of peridural fibrosis in lumbar disc reoperation after use of Adcon°-L during primary surgery. Société Belge de Neurochirurgie, Bruxelles, 14-3-1998.

138. HANCQ S, DEWITTE O, LEVIVIER M, PIROTTE B, DAVID P, SALMON I, BROTCHI J. Prise en charge chirurgicale des lésions de la région pinéale. Société de Neurochirurgie de Langue Française, Montréal, Canada, 26-29 juin 1999.

139. DE WITTE O, GOLDBERG I, SALMON I, LEVIVIER M, PIROTTE B, BROTCHI J, GOLDMAN S. Valeur prédictive de la captation de méthionine, étudiée par la tomographie par émission de positons, dans les gliomes cérébraux. Société de Neurochirurgie de Langue Française, Paris, France, 29 novembre - 1 décembre 1999.

140. HANCQ S, DE WITTE O, LEVIVIER M, PIROTTE B, DAVID P, SALMON I, BROTCHI J. Prise en charge chirurgicale des lésions de la région pinéale. Société de Neurochirurgie de Langue Française. 49ème Congrès, Montréal, Canada, 27-30 juin 1999.

141. PIROTTE B. Intrathecal Baclofen in the treatment of severe spasticity: Indications, selection, technique and results. Turkish Meeting on New Neurological Therapies, Ankara, Turquie, 8-10 mars 1999.

142. PIROTTE B, OCHS G. Intrathecal Baclofen results in patients with spasticity due to spinal cord injury and MS. 4th Pan European Spasticity Meeting, Stresa, Italie, 25-26 octobre 1999.

143. PIROTTE B, LEFRANC F, DAVID P, NAGY N, DEWITTE O, BROTCHI J. Postero-lateral transcondylar approach for anterolateral intradural tumors of the foramen magnum. 4th European Skull Base Society Congress, Nurenberg, Allemagne, 19-22 mai 1999.

144. PIROTTE B, LEFRANC F, DAVID P, NAGY N, DEWITTE O, BROTCHI J. Postero-lateral transcondylar approach for anterolateral intradural tumors of the foramen magnum. 4th European Skull Base Society Congress, Nurenberg, Allemagne, 19-22 mai 1999.

145. HANCQ S, DE WITTE O, LEVIVIER M, PIROTTE B, BROTCHI J. CPA meningiomas: review of 16 pure cases. Third International Conference on Acoustic Neurinoma and Other CPA Tumors, Rome, Italie, 12-17 juin 1999.

146. BROTCHI J, PATAY Z, DAVID P, PIROTTE B, DEWITTE O, LEVIVIER M. Parasagittal meningiomas and superior longitudinal sinus strategy and surgical management. Experience in 88 cases. Société Belge de

Neurochirurgie, Bruxelles, 13 mars 1999.

147. PIROTTE B, LEFRANC F. Les traumatismes cranio-faciaux: Prise en charge chirurgicale. Enseignement Inter-

universitaire Belge de Chirurgie Maxillo-Faciale, Bruxelles, Avril 1999.

148. MASSAGER N., GABROVSKY N., LEVIVIER M., PIROTTE B., DE WITTE O., BALERIAUX D., BROTCHI J. Kystes arthro-synoviaux multiples du rachis lombaire : à propos de 5 cas. Société de

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Neurochirurgie de Langue Française, Paris (France), November 29 - December 1, 1999.

149. GABROWSKY N., PIROTTE B., LEVIVIER M., DEWITTE O., BROTCHI J. Diagnostic and surgical treatment of lumbar spine synovial cysts in 26 patients. Société Belge de Neurochirurgie, Bruxelles, 13-3-1999.

150. PIROTTE B, BROTCHI J. Tumors in children. Enseignement inter-universitaire Belge de Neurochirurgie,

Bruxelles, 8 janvier 1999.

151. PIROTTE B, VOORDECKER P, VENTURA M, JOFFROY F, BROTCHI J. Chronic motor cortex stimulation for central neuropathic pain using neuronavigation with the Zeiss-MKM microscope and peroperative somatosensory evoked potentials.The 9th World Congress on Pain, San Francisco, CA, USA, 15-21 juillet 2000.

152. PIROTTE B, JOFFROY F, VENTURA M, VOORDECKER P, MASSAGER N, BROTCHI J. Comparison of pain relief by lumbar intrathecal Baclofen between patients treated for spinal and supraspinal spasticity. The 9th

World Congress on Pain, San Francisco, CA, USA, 15-21 juillet 2000.

153. PIROTTE B, VOORDECKER P, LEJEUNE D, VENTURA M, MASSAGER N, BROTCHI J. Functional benefit from lumbar intrathecal baclofen in adults with severe supraspinal spasticity from stroke. Post graduate

Assembly in Anesthesiology, New York, NY, USA, 9-13 décembre 2000.

154. PIROTTE B, VENTURA M, VOORDECKER P, JOFFROY F, BROTCHI J. Lumbar intrathecal baclofen for severe spasticity in adults with traumatic brain injury. Post graduate Assembly in Anesthesiology, New York, NY, USA, 9-13 décembre 2000.

155. PIROTTE B, VOORDECKER P, JOFFROY F, BROTCHI J. Spatial accuracy of the Zeiss-MKM neuronavigation microscope in epidural motor cortex stimulation for central neuropathic pain. Post graduate

Assembly in Anesthesiology, New York, NY, USA, 9-13 décembre 2000.

156. PIROTTE B, JOFFROY F, VENTURA M, VOORDECKER P, BROTCHI J. Pain relief from lumbar intrathecal Baclofen in spinal and supraspinal spasticity. Post graduate Assembly in Anesthesiology, New York, NY, USA, 9-13 décembre 2000.

157. PIROTTE B, VOORDECKER P, VENTURA M, JOFFROY F, BROTCHI J. Chronic motor cortex stimulation for central neuropathic pain using neuronavigation with the Zeiss-MKM microscope and peroperative somatosensory evoked potentials. American Association of Neurological Surgeons, San Francisco, CA, USA, 10-15 avril 2000.

158. PIROTTE B, VOORDECKER P, LEJEUNE D, VENTURA M, MASSAGER N, BROTCHI J. Functional benefit from lumbar intrathecal baclofen in adults with severe supraspinal spasticity from stroke. The 9th World

Congress on Pain, San Francisco, CA, USA, 15-21 juillet 2000.

159. PIROTTE B, VENTURA M, VOORDECKER P, JOFFROY F, BROTCHI J. Lumbar intrathecal baclofen for severe spasticity in adults with traumatic brain injury. The 9th World Congress on Pain, San Francisco, CA, USA, 15-21 juillet 2000.

160. PIROTTE B, VOORDECKER P, BALERIAUX D, METENS T, WIKLER D, SCHOOVAERTS F, JOFFROY F, BROTCHI J. Epidural chronic motor cortex stimulation for central neuropathic pain : Preliminary experience. Société Belge de Neurochirurgie, Bruxelles, 18 mars 2000.

161. OULAD BEN TAIB N, WIKLER D, DE WITTE O, PIROTTE B, DAVID P, BROTCHI J, GOLDMAN S, LEVIVIER M. Integration of the metabolic data of positron emission tomography in neuronavigation. Société

Belge de Neurochirurgie, Bruxelles, 18 mars 2000.

162. PIROTTE B, LEFRANC F, GOLDMAN S, BLECIC S, NAGY N, WIDELEC J, BROTCHI J. Fluorodeoxyglucose and Methionine uptake in Lhermitte-Duclos disease. American Association of Neurological

Surgeons, San Francisco, CA, USA, 10-15 avril 2000.

163. PIROTTE B, SALZBERG S, VAN BOGAERT P, GOLDMAN S, LEJEUNE D, LEVIVIER M, BROTCHI J. Interest of combining positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging in the planning of stereotactic brain biopsies in children : preliminary experience in 9 cases. European Society for Pediatric

Neurosurgery. Gratz, Autriche, juin 2000.

164. PIROTTE B, VAN CALENBERGH F, PLETS C, BROTCHI J. Intracranial ependymomas in children. European Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery. Gratz, Autriche, juin 2000.

165. PIROTTE B, SALZBERG S, VAN BOGAERT P, GOLDMAN S, LEJEUNE D, LEVIVIER M, BROTCHI J. Interest of combining positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging in the planning of stereotactic brain biopsies in children : preliminary experience in 9 cases. American Association for Pediatric

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Neurosurgery. San Diego, CA, USA, décembre 2000.

166. PIROTTE B, VAN CALENBERGH F, PLETS C, BROTCHI J. Intracranial ependymomas in children. American

Association for Pediatric Neurosurgery. San Diego, CA, USA, décembre 2000.

167. PIROTTE B, LUBANSU A, DAVID P, CHRISTOPHE C, SARIBAN E, LIPSZYK M, BROTCHI J. Prognostic heterogeneity of intracranial juvenile pilocytic astrocytomas. American Association for Pediatric Neurosurgery. San Diego, CA, USA, décembre 2000.

168. PIROTTE B, LEFRANC F, DETEMMERMAN D, DAVID P, WETZBURGER C, SALMON I, BROTCHI J. Intramedullary schwannoma in a 2-year-old child.American Association for Pediatric Neurosurgery. San Diego, CA, USA, décembre 2000.

169. LUBANSU A, LOPEZ E, DAVID P, NAGY N, VAN BOGAERT P, BROTCHI J, PIROTTE B. Intracranial meningiomas in children: Three cases. Société Belge de Neurochirurgie, Bruxelles, 18 mars 2000.

170. PIROTTE B, VAN CALENBERGH F, BROTCHI J, PLETS J. Intracranial ependymomas in children: a combined series. Société Belge de Neurochirurgie, Bruxelles, 18 mars 2000.

171. LUBANSU A, DAVID P, VAN BOGAERT P, CHRISTOPHE C, SARIBAN E, LIPSZYK M, BROTCHI J, PIROTTE B. Prognostic heterogeneity of intracranial juvenile pilocytic astrocytomas. Société Belge de

Neurochirurgie, Bruxelles, 18 mars 2000.

172. PIROTTE B, LEFRANC F, GOLDMAN S, BLECIC S, NAGY N, WIDELEC J, BROTCHI J. Fluorodeoxyglucose and Methionine uptake in Lhermitte-Duclos disease. American Association of Neurological

Surgeons, San Francisco, CA, USA, 10-15 avril 2000.

173. PIROTTE B., GABROVSKY N., LEVIVIER M., DEWITTE O., BROTCHI J. Surgical results in 26 patients operated for lumbar arthrosynovial cysts. American Association of Neurological Surgeons, San Francisco, USA, 10-15 avril 2000.

174. HANCQ S, SALMON I, KISS R, PIROTTE B, BALERIAUX D, BROTCHI J. Biological markers in recurrent meningiomas. Société Belge de Neurochirurgie, Bruxelles, 18 mars 2000.

175. PIROTTE B, OULAD BEN TAIB N, DAVID P, RORIVE S, BOLYN S, BROTCHI J. Angiolipomas of the skull base: diagnostic and microsurgical presentation. Société Belge de Neurochirurgie, Bruxelles, 18-3-2000.

176. PIROTTE B, HANCQ S, DEWITTE O, DAVID P, RORIVE S, VANDESTEENE A, BROTCHI J. Surgical planning for intradural tumors of the Foramen Magnum. Société Belge de Neurochirurgie, Bruxelles, 18-3-2000.

177. PIROTTE B., DAVID P., DEWITTE O., RORIVE S., LEJEUNE D., BOLYN S., BROTCHI J. Diagnostic and microsurgical presentation of skull base angiolipomas. International Skull Base Society, Brazil, 2000.

178. PIROTTE B., DEWITTE O., VANDESTEENE A., DAVID P., RORIVE S., BROTCHI J. Postero-lateral transcondylar approach for anterolateral intradural tumors of the foramen magnum. International Skull Base

Society, Brazil, 2000.

179. PIROTTE B., HANCQ S., SALMON I., KISS R., RORIVE S., BALERIAUX D., DEWITTE O., BROTCHI J. Predictive value of biological markers in recurrent intracranial meningiomas. International Skull Base Society, Brazil, 2000.

180. PIROTTE B, VENTURA M, MASSAGER N, BROTCHI J. Lumbar intrathecal baclofen for severe spasticity in adults with traumatic brain injury. XIII WSSFN Meeting, Adelaide, Australie, 11-14 septembre 2001.

181. MASSAGER N, DAVID P, GOLDMAN S, PIROTTE B, WIKLER D, SALMON I, NAGY N, RORIVE S, BROTCHI J, LEVIVIER M. Apport diagnostique des biopsies stéréotaxiques des tumeurs du tronc cérébral chez 30 patients évalués préalablement par IRM et TEP. Premières journées françaises de neurochirurgie, Saint-Malo, France, 3-6 octobre 2001.

182. PIROTTE B, BLECIC S, MASSAGER N, BROTCHI J. Functional benefit from lumbar intrathecal baclofen in adults with severe supraspinal spasticity from stroke. XIII WSSFN Meeting, Adelaide, Australie, 11-14 septembre 2001.

183. PIROTTE B, VOORDECKER P, JOFFROY F, MASSAGER N, WIKLER D, BALERIAUX D, LEVIVIER M, BROTCHI J. The Zeiss-MKM system for frameless image-guided approach in epidural motor cortex stimulation for central neuropathic pain. XIII WSSFN Meeting, Adelaide, Australie, 11-14 septembre 2001.

184. PIROTTE B, VOORDECKER P, METENS T, WIKLER D, BALERIAUX D, LEVIVIER M, BROTCHI J. Frameless Stereotactic Guidance of Epidural Motor Cortex Stimulation for Central Neuropathic Pain by Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging. XIII WSSFN Meeting, Adelaide, Australie, 11-14 septembre 2001.

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185. JUSTE D, MERZKIOUI L, VALLAEYS C, PIROTTE B. Nurses involved in multi-observer assessment of pain after epidural chronic motor cortex stimulation. 8th World Federation of Neuroscience Nurses Congress, Sydney, Australie, 16-20 septembre 2001.

186. PIROTTE B, VOORDECKER P, BALERIAUX D, MASSAGER N, LEVIVIER M, BROTCHI J. Guidage stéréotaxique à l’aide du système de neuronavigation MKM de Zeiss pour la stimulation épidurale du cortex moteur dans le traitement de la douleur centrale. Congrès annuel de la société de Neurochirurgie de Langue Française, Paris, France, 25-28 décembre 2001.

187. LUBANSU A, VANDERKEELEN B, MESCOLA P, RORIVE S, BROTCHI J, PIROTTE B. Méningiomes intracraniens chez l’enfant: à propos de 6 cas. Congrès annuel de la société de Neurochirurgie de Langue

Française, Paris, France, 25-28 décembre 2001.

188. LUBANSU A, RORIVE S, DAVID P, SARIBAN E, BROTCHI J, PIROTTE B. Heterogeneite pronostique des astrocytomes pilocytiques juveniles intracraniens. Congrès annuel de la société de Neurochirurgie de Langue

Française, Paris, France, 25-28 décembre 2001.

189. PIROTTE B, GOLDMAN S, SALZBERG S, WIKLER D, DAVID P, VANDESTEENE A, LEVIVIER M, BROTCHI J. Intérêt de combiner la tomographie a emission de positons et l’imagerie par resonance magnetique dans le guidage des biopsies cerebrales stereotaxiques chez l’enfant: experience preliminaire dans 9 cas. Congrès

annuel de la société de Neurochirurgie de Langue Française, Paris, France, 25-28 décembre 2001.

190. MORELLI D, DETEMMERMAN D, DAVID P, SALMON I, BROTCHI J, PIROTTE B. Schwannome intramédullaire chez un enfant de 2 ans. Congrès annuel de la société de Neurochirurgie de Langue Française, Paris, France, 25-28 décembre 2001.

191. PIROTTE B., GABROVSKY N., MASSAGER N., LEVIVIER M., DE WITTE O., BROTCHI J. Surgical results in 26 patients operated for lumbar arthrosynovial cysts. Société Française de Neurochirurgie, Les Arcs (France), Janvier, 2001.

192. MASSAGER, N., GABROVSKY N., MORELLI D., LEVIVIER M., BROTCHI J., PIROTTE B. Résultats chirurgicaux chez 40 patients opérés d’un kyste arthrosynovial lombaire. Congrès annuel de la société de

Neurochirurgie de Langue Française, Paris, France, 25-28 décembre 2001.

193. PIROTTE B, BALERIAUX D, BROTCHI J, RODESCH G, SALMON I. Unusual case of a «benign» intracranial hypertension. First Belgian Workshop on Pediatric Neurosurgery. Ostende, 16-17 juin 2001.

194. PIROTTE B, GOLDMAN S, VAN BOGAERT P, BROTCHI J. Intérêt du PET dans la prise en charge des tumeurs cérébrales pédiatriques. Société Belge de Neurologie Pédiatrique, Liege, 7 décembre 2001.

195. VERHEULPEN D, DETEMMERMAN D, HEIMANN P, SALMON I, DAVID P, PIROTTE B, VAMOS E, VAN BOGAERT P. Hemangiopericytoma : a rare meningioma. Clinical and cytogenetic study of a case. Société

Belge de Neurologie Pédiatrique, Liege, 7 décembre 2001.

196. LUBANSU A, VANDERKEELEN B, MESCOLA P, RORIVE S, BROTCHI J, PIROTTE B. Meningiomes intracraniens chez l’enfant: a propos de 6 cas. Société Belge de Neurologie Pédiatrique, Liege, 7 décembre 2001.

197. MORELLI D, DETEMMERMAN D, DAVID P, SALMON I, BROTCHI J, PIROTTE B. Schwannome intramédullaire chez un enfant de 2 ans. Société Belge de Neurologie Pédiatrique, Liege, 7 décembre 2001.

198. PIROTTE B. Specific considerations in intracranial ependymomas and pilocytic astrocytomas. First Belgian

Workshop on Pediatric Neurosurgery. Ostende, 16-17 juin 2001.

199. PIROTTE B. Prognosis of congenital brain tumors. First Belgian Workshop on Pediatric Neurosurgery. Ostende, 16-17 juin 2001.

200. PIROTTE B, BALÉRIAUX D, BROTCHI J, RODESCH G, SALMON I. Unusual case of a «benign» intracranial hypertension. First Belgian Workshop on Pediatric Neurosurgery. Ostende, 16-17 juin 2001.

201. PIROTTE B, PREUMONT N, VOORDECKER P, JANSSENS JL, STOUPEL E, VANDESTEENE A, BROTCHI J. Spinal cord stimulation in refractory angina pectoris : preliminary experience. Société Belge de

Neurochirurgie, Mont-Godinne, 21 mars 2002.

202. PIROTTE B, VOORDECKER P, BALERIAUX D, MASSAGER N, LEVIVIER M, BROTCHI J. Place de la stimulation épidurale du cortex moteur dans le traitement de la névralgie du trijumeau. Réunion d’hiver de la

Société Française de Neurochirurgie, Chamonix, France, 10-22 mars 2002.

203. PIROTTE B, GOLDMAN S, BIDAUT LM. Use of positron emission tomography in pediatric brain tumors. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Meeting, Birmingham, UK, mai 2002.

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204. PIROTTE B, VAN CALENBERGH F, BROTCHI J, PLETS C. Intracranial ependymomas in chilhood: A combined series. Xth symposium of the International Society for Pediatric Neurooncology, Londres, UK, juin 2002.

205. PIROTTE B, SALMON I, BALERIAUX D, RODESCH G, BROTCHI J. Pseudo-Tumor Cerebri due to a Capillary Hemangioma of the Superior Sagittal Sinus in a Child: case report. Xth symposium of the

International Society for Pediatric Neurooncology, Londres, UK, juin 2002.

206. PIROTTE B, LUBANSU A, DAVID P, VAN BOGAERT P, LIPSZYK M, BROTCHI J. Prognostic heterogeneity of intracranial juvenile pilocytic astrocytomas. Xth symposium of the International Society for

Pediatric Neurooncology, Londres, UK, juin 2002.

207. TAMIR S, PIROTTE B, GOLDMAN S, VAN BOGAERT P, DAIN E, DAVID P, BROTCHI J. Positron Emission Tomography in the Clinical Management of Pediatric Brain Tumors. Xth symposium of the

International Society for Pediatric Neurooncology, Londres, UK, juin 2002.

208. PIROTTE B, GOLDMAN S, VAN BOGAERT P, LEVIVIER M, SALZBERG S, BROTCHI J. Interest of combining positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance Imaging in the planning of stereotactic brain biopsies in Children. Xth symposium of the International Society for Pediatric Neurooncology, Londres, UK, juin 2002.

209. TAMIR S, PIROTTE B, GOLDMAN S, VAN BOGAERT P, DAIN E, DAVID P, BROTCHI J. Interest of including Positron Emission Tomography in the diagnostic imaging of Pediatric Brain lesions. XVIIIth Congress

of the European Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery, Kiruna, laponie, Suède, 14-18 juin 2002. (Child’s Nervous System 2002, 18: 260)

210. PIROTTE B, GOLDMAN S, VAN BOGAERT P, LEVIVIER M, SALZBERG S, BROTCHI J. Positron emission tomography in the follow-up of pediatric brain tumors. XVIIIth Congress of the European Society for

Pediatric Neurosurgery, Kiruna, laponie, Suède, 14-18 juin 2002. (Child’s Nervous System 2002, 18: 257-258)

211. LUBANSU A, RORIVE S, DAVID P, SARIBAN E, SELIGMANN R, BROTCHI J, PIROTTE B. Présentation métastatique et anaplasique d’un xantho-astrocytome pléiomorphe de l’enfant : A propos d’un cas. Congrès de la Société de Neurochirurgie de Langue Française, Paris, France, 24-27 novembre 2002.

212. MORELLI D, PIROTTE B, SALMON I, BALERIAUX D, RODESCH G, BROTCHI J. Pseudo-tumor cerebri due to a capillary hemangioma of the superior sagittal sinus in a child: case report. Société Belge de

Neurochirurgie, Mont-Godinne, 21 mars 2002.

213. LUBANSU A, DAVID P, PIROTTE B. Management of hydrocephalus in posterior fossa tumors. 2nd Belgian Workshop on Pediatric Neurosurgery, Management of pediatric hydrocephalus, Société Belge de

Neurochirurgie, Spa, 5-6 octobre 2002.

214. NKONABANG S., DAVID Ph., PIROTTE B. Infections of shunt in children. 2nd Belgian Workshop on Pediatric Neurosurgery, Management of pediatric hydrocephalus, Société Belge de Neurochirurgie, Spa, 5-6 octobre 2002.

215. PIROTTE B, GOLDMAN S, BIDAUT LM. VAN BOGAERT P, DAVID P, BROTCHI J. Use of positron emission tomography in pediatric brain tumors. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Meeting,

Birmingham (UK), 26-27 novembre 2002.

216. OULAD BEN TAIB N, WIKLER D, LEFRANC F, PIROTTE B, DEWITTE O, BROTCHI J, LEVIVIER M. Clinical Evaluation of Electro-Magnetic Tracking for Cranial Image-Guided Neurosurgery: A series of 10 cases. Société Belge de Neurochirurgie, Mont-Godinne, 29 mars 2003.

217. PIROTTE B, WIKLER D, OULAD BEN TAIB N, LEFRANC F, DE WITTE O, ALESSI G, BROTCHI J, LEVIVIER M. Clinical Evaluation of Electro-Magnetic Tracking for Cranial Image-Guided Neurosurgery: preliminary study. CNS Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, USA 4-9 octobre 2003.

218. PIROTTE B, VOORDECKER P, METENS T, WIKLER D, NEUGROSCHL C, BALERIAUX D, BROTCHI J, LEVIVIER M. Frameless Navigation Combining Functional MRI and Somatosensory Evoked Potentials Mapping in Epidural Motor Cortex Stimulation for Central Neuropathic Pain. CNS Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, USA 4-9 octobre 2003.

219. PIROTTE B, LUBANSU A, RORIVE S, DAVID P, SELIGMANN R, BROTCHI J. Xanthoastrocytome pléomorphe cérébral de l’enfant : observation d’une forme d’emblée anaplasique associée à une dissémination méningée. Société Française de Neurochirurgie, Perpignan, mars 2003.

220. PIROTTE B, LUBANSU A, DAVID P, LIPSZYK M, VINCENT JL, VANBOGAERT P, BROTCHI J. Unusual multivessel ischemic stroke during focal surgical approach of a suprasellar mature teratoma. 6th English-French

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Meeting of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Evian, France, 23-25 mai 2003.

221. LUBANSU A, GOLDMAN S, LEVIVIER M, DAVID P, VAN BOGAERT P, FRICX CH, SALMON I, BROTCHI J, PIROTTE B. Positron Emission Tomography Imaging in the Management of Pineal Région Tumors in Children : Preliminary experience. 31st Annual Meeting of the International Society for Pediatric

Neurosurgery, Monte-Carlo, Monaco, 14-18 septembre 2003.

222. LUBANSU A, VAN BOGAERT P, DETEMMERMAN D, RORIVE S, DAVID P, SALMON I, BROTCHI J, PIROTTE B. Atypic Tératoid-Rhabdoid Tumors in Children : Two cases. 31st Annual Meeting of the

International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery, Monte-Carlo, Monaco, 14-18 septembre 2003.

223. PIROTTE B, WIKLER D, SCHUTYSER F, DAVID P, LOURYAN S, DETEMMERMAN D, BROTCHI J, MALEVEZ C. frameless stereotactic navigation for radical bone resection of a fronto-orbitar fibrous dysplasia and 3D-image-based planning for Cranio-facial reconstruction with Titanium Membrane Modeling: Technical case report. 31st Annual Meeting of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery, Monte-Carlo, Monaco, 14-18 septembre 2003.

224. PIROTTE B, LEVIVIER M, TAMIR S, DAIN E, VAN BOGAERT P, DAVID P, BROTCHI J, GOLDMAN S. Postoperative Positron Emission Tomography Imaging for the Evaluation of Surgical Resection in Pediatric Brain Tumors. 31st Annual Meeting of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery, Monte-Carlo, Monaco, 14-18 septembre 2003.

225. PIROTTE B, TAMIR S, GOLDMAN S, DAIN E, VAN BOGAERT P, DAVID P, LEVIVIER M, BROTCHI J. Impact on the Surgical Strategy of Integrating Positron Emission Tomography in the Diagnostic Imaging of Pediatric Brain Lesions. 31st Annual Meeting of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery, Monte-Carlo, Monaco, 14-18 septembre 2003.

226. PIROTTE B, GOLDMAN S, WIKLER D, LUBANSU A, AEBY A, VAN BOGAERT P, DAVID P, BROTCHI J, LEVIVIER M. Combined stereotactic positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging for image-guided surgical resection of brain tumors in children. 31st Annual Meeting of the International Society

for Pediatric Neurosurgery, Monte-Carlo, Monaco, 14-18 septembre 2003.

227. LUBANSU A, GOLDMAN S, LEVIVIER M, DAVID P, VAN BOGAERT P, FRICX C, SALMON I, BROTCHI J, PIROTTE B. Imagerie par TEP dans la prise en charge des tumeurs pinéales chez l’enfant : experience preliminaire. Congrès Annuel de la Société de Neurochirurgie de Langue Française - SNCLF, Paris, France, décembre 2003.

228. LUBANSU A, VAN BOGAERT P, DETEMMERMAN D, RORIVE S, DAVID P, SALMON I, BROTCHI J, PIROTTE B. Tumeur tératoide-rhabdoide atypique chez l’enfant : 2 cas. Congrès Annuel de la Société de

Neurochirurgie de Langue Française - SNCLF, Paris, France, décembre 2003.

229. PIROTTE B, LUBANSU A, LAUREYS M, RODESCH G, BALERIAUX D, VANBOGAERT P, BROTCHI J. Multimodal management of complex case of spinal aneurysmal cyst. 6th English-French Meeting of Pediatric

Neurosurgery, Evian, France, 23-25 mai 2003.

230. PIROTTE B, LUBANSU A, DAVID P, VAN BOGAERT P, BROTCHI J. Evolving C1C2 dyslocation secondary to postnatal trauma. 6th English-French Meeting of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Evian, France, 23-25 mai 2003.

231. PIROTTE B, ALESSI G, LUBANSU A, LIPSZYK M, DAVID P, VAN BOGAERT P, BROTCHI J. Symptomatic arachnoid cysts in the cerebello-pontine angle: 2 cases report. 6th English-French Meeting of

Pediatric Neurosurgery, Evian, France, 23-25 mai 2003.

232. PIROTTE B, WIKLER D, SCHUTYSER F, DAVID Ph, LOURYAN S, DETEMMERMAN D, BROTCHI J, MALEVEZ Ch. frameless stereotactic navigation for radical bone resection of a fronto-orbitar fibrous dysplasia and 3D-image-based planning for Cranio-facial reconstruction with Titanium Membrane Modeling: Technical case report. 31st Annual Meeting of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery, Montecarlo, Monaco, 14-18 septembre 2003.

233. ALESSI G, AEBY A, LUBANSU A, DAVID P, VAN BOGAERT P, LIPSZYC M, BROTCHI J, PIROTTE B.

kyste arachnoïdien de l’angle ponto-cérébelleux chez l’enfant : A propos de deux observations symptomatiques. SNCLF, Paris, France, décembre 2003.

234. SEKHARA T, NKONABANG B, MEWASINGH L, CHRISTOPHE C, GROSWASSER J, PIROTTE B, DAN B. Slit-ventricle syndrome. Société Belge de Pédiatrie, Bruxelles, mai 2003.

235. PIROTTE B, WIKLER D, DAVID P, LEFRANC F, BROTCHI J, LEVIVIER M. Magnetic Resonance Angiography Image Guidance for the Microsurgical Clipping of Distal Intracranial Aneurysms. CNS Annual

Meeting, October 2003, Denver, CO, USA

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236. VOORDECKER P, PIROTTE B, METENS T, WIKLER D, DENOLIN V, NEUGROSCHL C, BALERIAUX D, BROTCHI J, LEVIVIER M. Comparison of fMRi-guidance to electrical cortical brain mapping for targeting selective motor cortex areas : a study based on intraoperative stereotactic navigation for motor cortex stimulation in neuropathic pain, Société Belge de Neurochirurgie, Mont-Godinne, 20 mars 2004.

237. PIROTTE B. Spinal cord stimulation. in Journée de la Douleur, Université Libre de Bruxelles, CMETD,

Bruxelles, 9 octobre 2004.

238. PIROTTE B. Traitement de la douleur chronique. Les techniques neurochirurgicales. Congrès Européen sur la

Douleur (Richard TREVES et Thierry APPELBOOM), Bruxelles, 21 mars 2004.

239. PIROTTE B, Van BUYTEN JP. Motor Cortex Stimulation for neuropathic pain: Technique, results and major issues. ECMT – European Continuing Medical Training, Bruxelles, 24-25 juin 2004.

240. PIROTTE B, NEUGROSCHL C, METENS T, WIKLER D, DENOLIN V, VOORDECKER P, JOFFROY A, MASSAGER N, BROTCHI J, LEVIVIER M, BALERIAUX D. Comparison of functional MRi-guidance to electrical cortical brain mapping for targeting selective motor cortex areas : a study based on intraoperative stereotactic navigation for motor cortex stimulation in neuropathic pain. American Society of Neuroradiology, Seattle, WA, USA, 7-11 juin 2004.

241. PIROTTE B, VOORDECKER P, METENS T, WIKLER D, DENOLIN V, NEUGROSCHL C, BALERIAUX D, BROTCHI J, LEVIVIER M. Comparison of fMRi-guidance to electrical cortical brain mapping for targeting selective motor cortex areas : a study based on intraoperative stereotactic navigation for motor cortex stimulation in neuropathic pain. American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA USA, 20-24 octobre 2004.

242. BALERIAUX D, VOORDECKER P, NEUGROSCHL C, METENS T, WIKLER D, DENOLIN V, JOFFROY F, MASSAGER N, LEVIVIER M, BROTCHI J, PIROTTE B. Comparaison de la Résonance Magnétique Fonctionnelle (IRMf) à la Cartographie Corticale (CC) pour le Ciblage d’Aires Corticales Motrices Sélectives: une Etude utilisant la Navigation Intraopératoire pour la Stimulation Epidurale du Cortex Moteur (SCM) dans le Traitement de la Douleur Neuropathique. Congrès Annuel de la Société de Neurochirurgie de Langue

Française, Paris, France, 21-24 novembre 2004.

243. LEVIVIER M, WIKLER D, DEWITTE O, PIROTTE B, SCHOOVAERT F, BALERIAUX D, VAN DE STEENE A, BROTCHI J. Images par résonance magnétique intraopératoire (IRMI) amovible et à bas champs avec système de faradisation mobile : expérience préliminaire. Congrès Annuel de la Société de Neurochirurgie de

Langue Française, Paris, France, 21-24 novembre 2004.

244. MASSAGER N, WIKLER D, PIROTTE B, DAVID P, GOLDMAN S, BROTCHI J, LEVIVIER M. Utilisation de plusieurs modalités d’imagerie en neurochirurgie stéréotactique : classification basée sur l’expérience de l’intégration de l’imagerie par résonance magnétique (IRM) et de la tomographie à emission de positons (TEP) en radiochirurgie par gamma knife (GK). Congrès Annuel de la Société de Neurochirurgie de Langue Française, Paris, France, 21-24 novembre 2004.

245. MASUDI J, GOLDMAN S, BALERIAUX D, LEVIVIER M, PIROTTE B, BROTCHI J, DEWITTE O. Positron emission tomography (PET) with 11C-Methionine in brain gliomas: outcome of patients and impact of treatments on metabolic information Société Belge de Neurochirurgie, UCL-Mont-Godinne, 12 mars 2004

246. LEVIVIER M, WIKLER D, DEWITTE O, PIROTTE B, SCHOOVAERT F, BALERIAUX D, VAN DE STEENE A, BROTCHI J. Images par résonance magnétique intraopératoire (IRMI) amovible et à bas champs avec système de faradisation mobile : expérience préliminaire. Congrès Annuel de la Société de Neurochirurgie de

Langue Française, Paris, France, 21-24 novembre 2004.

247. MASSAGER N, WIKLER D, PIROTTE B, DAVID P, GOLDMAN S, BROTCHI J, LEVIVIER M. Utilisation de plusieurs modalités d’imagerie en neurochirurgie stéréotactique : classification basée sur l’expérience de l’intégration de l’imagerie par résonance magnétique (IRM) et de la tomographie à emission de positons (TEP) en radiochirurgie par gamma knife (GK). Congrès Annuel de la Société de Neurochirurgie de Langue Française, Paris, France, 21-24 novembre 2004.

248. PIROTTE B, LUBANSU A, MORELLI D, MASSAGER N, LEFRANC F, HANCQ S, OULAD BEN TAIB N, VANDESTEENE A, BROTCHI J. strict application of sterile Technique for Shunt placement Reduces the Shunt Infection Rate in Children: A Prospective series of 46 Consecutive Procedures Société Belge de Neurochirurgie, Mont-Godinne, mars 2004.

249. LUBANSU A, DETEMMERMAN D, VERHEULPEN D, BERRE J, DAVID P, BROTCHI J, PIROTTE B

Decompressive Craniectomy in Children with Severe Traumatic brain Injury: Preliminary Results of a Prospective Study Société Belge de Neurochirurgie, Mont-Godinne, mars 2004.

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250. PIROTTE B. Experience in the treatment of Scaphocephaly. Surgery of Craniosynostoses. Belgian Society of

Neurosurgery, Ostende, octobre 2004.

251. PIROTTE B. Treatment of Trigonocephaly: experience and complications. Surgery of Craniosynostoses. Belgian

Society of Neurosurgery, Ostende, octobre 2004.

252. MASSAGER N, PIROTTE B, DEVRIENDT D, LORENZONI J, BROTCHI J, LEVIVIER M. Gamma Knife radiosurgery guided by combined MRI and PET for the treatment of glial tumors in children. 16th Congress of the

European Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, Vienne, Autriche, 23-26 juin 2004.

253. PIROTTE B, GOLDMAN S, WIKLER D, LUBANSU A, AEBY A, VAN BOGAERT P, DAVID P, BROTCHI J, LEVIVIER M. Interest of integrating PET in the image-guided surgery of pediatric brain tumors. Xth Anglo-

French Meeting for Pediatric Neurosurgery, Oxford (UK), 4-6 juin 2004.

254. PIROTTE B, WIKLER D, LUBANSU A, AEBY A, VAN BOGAERT P, DAVID P, BROTCHI J. Intraoperative ODIN-Polestar N20 for pediatric brain tumors. Xth Anglo-French Meeting for Pediatric Neurosurgery, Oxford (UK), 4-6 juin 2004.

255. PIROTTE B, LUBANSU A, GOLDMAN S, DAIN E, VAN BOGAERT P, DAVID P, DETEMMERMAN D, LEVIVIER M, BROTCHI J. Impact on the Surgical Strategy of Integrating Positron Emission Tomography in the Diagnostic Imaging of Pediatric Brain Lesions 11th International Symposium on Pediatric Neuro-oncology

(ISPNO), Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA, 13-16 juin 2004.

256. PIROTTE B, LUBANSU A, LEVIVIER M, DAIN E, VAN BOGAERT P, DAVID P, FRICX C, BROTCHI J, GOLDMAN S. Postoperative Positron Emission Tomography Imaging for the Evaluation of Surgical Resection in Pediatric Brain Tumors. 11th International Symposium on Pediatric Neuro-oncology (ISPNO), Harvard

Medical School, Boston, MA, USA, 13-16 juin 2004.

257. PIROTTE B, GOLDMAN S, WIKLER D, LUBANSU A, AEBY A, VAN BOGAERT P, DAVID P, BROTCHI J, LEVIVIER M. Combined stereotactic positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging for image-guided surgical resection of brain tumors in children. 11th International Symposium on Pediatric Neuro-

oncology (ISPNO), Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. 13-16 juin 2004.

258. PIROTTE B, LUBANSU A, GOLDMAN S, DAIN E, VAN BOGAERT P, DAVID P, DETEMMERMAN D, LEVIVIER M, BROTCHI J. Impact on the Surgical Strategy of Integrating Positron Emission Tomography in the Diagnostic Imaging of Pediatric Brain Lesions American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS)

Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA, octobre 2004.

259. PIROTTE B, MORELLI D, LUBANSU A, GOLDMAN S, DAIN E, VAN BOGAERT P, DAVID P, DETEMMERMAN D, BROTCHI J. Impact de l’intégration des données de la tomography à emission de positons (TEP) à l’imagerie diagnostique sur la stratégie chirurgicale des lesions cérébrales de l’enfant (LCE). Congrès

Annuel de la Société de Neurochirurgie de Langue Française, Paris, France, 21-24 novembre 2004.

260. MORELLI D, LUBANSU A, VAN BOGAERT P, FRICKX C, DAVID P, BROTCHI J, PIROTTE B. Hydrocéphalie persistante après exérèse chirurgicale précoce des tumeurs de la fosse postérieure: Analyse critique retrospective d’une série consecutive de 160 enfants. Congrès Annuel de la Société de Neurochirurgie de

Langue Française, Paris, France, 21-24 novembre 2004.

261. PIROTTE B. Le PET-scan dans les tumeurs cérébrales pédiatriques. Séminaire de neuroradiologie pédiatrique –

HUDERF, 5 septembre 2004.

262. MORELLI D, LUBANSU A, VAN BOGAERT P, FRICKX C, DAVID P, BROTCHI J, PIROTTE B. Incidence of Persisting Hydrocephalus after Early Surgical Treatment in 158 Consecutive Posterior Fossa Tumors in Children Société Belge de Neurochirurgie, Mont-Godinne, mars 2004.

263. PIROTTE B, WIKLER D, SCHUTYSER F, DAVID P, LOURYAN S, DETEMMERMAN D, BROTCHI J, MALEVEZ C. Frameless Stereotactic Navigation for Radical Bone Resection of a Fronto-orbitar Fibrous Dysplasia and 3D-image based planning for Cranio-facial reconstruction with Titanium Membrane Modeling: Technical case report. Xth Anglo-French Meeting for Pediatric Neurosurgery, Oxford, UK, 4-6 juin 2004.

264. PIROTTE B, LUBANSU A, LOURYAN S, AEBY A, VAN BOGAERT P, DAVID P, BROTCHI J. Difficult strategy in persistant CSF leakage after petrous bone fracture. Xth Anglo-French Meeting for Pediatric

Neurosurgery, Oxford, UK, 4-6 juin 2004.

265. JANKOVSKI A, MASSAGER N, LEVIVIER M, DE WITTE O, PIROTTE B, LEFRANC F, LUBANSU A, BROTCHI J. Treatment strategy in the management fo brain cavernomas. Communication à la Société Belge de

Neurochirurgie 2004

266. PIROTTE B, WIKLER D, DAVID P, LEFRANC F, BROTCHI J, LEVIVIER M, BALERIAUX D. Magnetic

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resonance angiography image guidance for the microsurgical clipping of intracranial aneurysms. American Society

of Neuroradiology, Seattle, WA (USA), June 7-11, 2004.

267. PIROTTE B. Surgery of Lumbar disc hernia. in Journée de la Douleur, Université Libre de Bruxelles,

CMETD, Brussels (Belgium) october 9th, 2004.

268. MASUDI J, PIROTTE B, VOORDECKER P, JOFFROY A, MATHIEU N, DEJONGHE L, CHALTIN C, MASSAGER N, BROTCHI J, LEVIVIER M. Spinal Cord Stimulation for Failed Back Surgery Syndrome: Effectiveness and Complications in 62 consecutive patients. Belgian Society for Neurosurgery, Annual

Meeting, Leuven, 19 mars 2005.

269. NGUYEN JP, COLLE H, EISNER W, HELLWIG D, NUTTIN B, PIROTTE B, RAFTOPOULOS C, REMACLE JM, TRONNIER V. Concept: Crossover Efficacy Pain Trial in Motor Cortex Stimulation for Intractable Neuropathic Pain. Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Neuromodulation Societies

(EFNS), mai 2005.

270. PIROTTE B. Motor Cortex Stimulation for Neuropathic Pain. European Association of Neurosurgical

Societies (EANS) pre-meeting Course on Functional Neurosurgery, Prague, Tchéquie, 19 février 2005.

271. PIROTTE B. Integrating functional imaging into the planning of image-guided brain surgery. University of

Arkansas Medical School (UAMS), Little Rock, AR, USA, 20 février 2005.

272. STRAET S, PIROTTE B, VAN BRABANDT K, VANDESTEEN A, LEVIVIER M, DEWITTE O, MASSAGER N, LEFRANC F, OULAD Ben TAIB N, MORELLI D, LUBANSU A, BROTCHI J. Operative morbidity related to the patient’s positioning in routine intracranial neurosurgical procedures: A single-center prospective evaluation on a 20-month period. 13th World Congress of neurological Surgery, Marrakech, Maroc, 19-24 juin 2005.

273. PIROTTE B, GOLDMAN S, DEWITTE O, MASSAGER N, WIKLER D, LEFRANC F, OULAD BEN TAIB N, RORIVE S, BROTCHI J, LEVIVIER M. Integration of PET and MR imaging for image-guided surgical resection of brain tumors: Experience in 103 consecutive procedures. Belgian Society for Neurosurgery, Annual

Meeting, Leuven, 19 mars 2005.

274. PIROTTE B, GOLDMAN S, DEWITTE O, MASSAGER N, WIKLER D, OULAD BEN TAIB N, RORIVE S, DEVRIENDT D, DAVID P, BROTCHI J, LEVIVIER M. Interest of integrating PET images in the planning of image-guided volumetric resection of brain gliomas. Belgian Association for Neuro-Oncology – BANO, Leuven, 23 septembre 2005.

275. PIROTTE B, GOLDMAN S, DEWITTE O, MASSAGER N, WIKLER D, LEFRANC F, OULAD BEN TAIB N, RORIVE S, DAVID PH, BROTCHI J, LEVIVIER M. Integration of PET and MR imaging for image-guided surgical resection of brain tumors: Experience in 103 consecutive procedures. 13th World Congress of

neurological Surgery, Marrakech, Maroc, 19-24 juin 2005.

276. STRAET S, PIROTTE B, VAN BRABANDT K, VANDESTEEN A, LEVIVIER M, DEWITTE O, MASSAGER N, LEFRANC F, OULAD Ben TAIB N, MORELLI D, LUBANSU A, BROTCHI J. Operative morbidity related to the patient’s positioning in routine intracranial neurosurgical procedures: A single-center prospective evaluation on a 20-month period. 13th World Congress of neurological Surgery, Marrakech, Maroc, 19-24 juin 2005.

277. PIROTTE B, GOLDMAN S, DEWITTE O, MASSAGER N, WIKLER D, LEFRANC F, OULAD BEN TAIB N, RORIVE S, DAVID P, BROTCHI J, LEVIVIER M. Résection Volumétrique des Tumeurs Cérébrales Guidée par la Tomographie à Emission de Positons (TEP): Description Technique sur une série de 103 Procédures Opératoires Consécutives chez l’Adulte. Société de neurochirurgie de Langue française (SNCLF), Paris, France, novembre 2005.

278. MAKIESE O, PIROTTE B, DEWINDT A, BOLYN S, CORHAY JL, LOUIS R, GOLDMAN S, DAVID P, WIKLER D, SALMON I, BROTCHI J. [F-18]fluorodeoxyglucose and [F-18]Tyrosine uptake in neurosarcoidosis: Case report. Société de neurochirurgie de Langue française (SNCLF), Paris, France, novembre 2005.

279. Integrating functional imaging into the planning of image-guided brain surgery. University of Arkansas Medical

School (UAMS), Little Rock, AR, USA, 22 février 2005.

280. The Use of MRI and PET Imaging in Neuro-Oncology. European Concensus Conference on Perspectives in

CNS Malignancies, Prague, Tchéquie, 17-18 juin 2005.

281. Combination of PET and MR in the Image-Guided Surgery of Brain Gliomas. 13th World Congress of

neurological Surgery, Marrakech, Maroc, 19-24 juin 2005.

282. PET-Guided neurosurgery. European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM), Annual Meeting, Istambul,

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Turquie, novembre 2005.

283. LUBANSU A, PIROTTE B, LEVIVIER M, MORELLI D, VAN BOGAERT P, DAVID P, BROTCHI J, GOLDMAN S. Positron Emission Tomography for the Early Postsurgical Evaluation of Pediatric Brain Tumors. Belgian Society for Neurosurgery, Annual Meeting, Leuven, 19 mars 2005.

284. PIROTTE B, VAN BOGAERT P, SCALLAIS E. Primary intracranial meningeal sarcoma in a child. Xth Anglo-

French Meeting for Pediatric Neurosurgery, Beaune, France, 19-22 mai 2005.

285. PIROTTE B, DE TIEGE X, VAN BOGAERT P. Ghost tumor presenting a brain vasculitis. Xth Anglo-French

Meeting for Pediatric Neurosurgery, Beaune, France, 19-22 mai 2005.

286. PIROTTE B, LUBANSU A, LEVIVIER M, MORELLI D, VAN BOGAERT P, DAVID P, BROTCHI J, GOLDMAN S. Intérêt de l’Imagerie par Tomographie à Emission de Positons dans l’Evaluation Postopératoire Précoce de la Résection des Tumeurs Cérébrales Pédiatriques. Congrès de la Société Française de Neurochirurgie

Pédiatrique, Aix-les-Bains, France, 3-5 juin 2005.

287. PIROTTE B, GOLDMAN S, DEWITTE O, MASSAGER N, WIKLER D, LEFRANC F, OULAD BEN TAIB N, RORIVE S, DAVID PH, BROTCHI J, LEVIVIER M. Integration of PET and MR imaging for image-guided surgical resection of brain tumors: Experience in 103 consecutive procedures. 13th World Congress of

neurological Surgery, Marrakech, Maroc, 19-24 juin 2005.

288. PIROTTE B, GOLDMAN S, DAVID P, DEVRIENDT D, LEVIVIER M, VAN BOGAERT P, BROTCHI J. Combined Positron Emission Tomography and Magnetic Resonance imaging in the Dosimetry Planning of Radiosurgery using Leksell Gamma Knife° for Intracranial Tumors in Children: Preliminary Experience. 7e

International Stereotactic Radiosurgery Society Congress, Bruxelles, 11-15 septembre 2005.

289. RIOS GALVEZ E, PIROTTE B, PALACIO P, DEWIL A, DAVID P, DEVRIENDT D, DESMEDT F, BAURAIN M, LEVIVIER M, BROTCHI J. Specific Nurse Attendance during Routine Leksell Gamma Knife° Radiosurgery in Children. 7e International Stereotactic Radiosurgery Society Congress, Bruxelles, 11-15 septembre 2005.

290. GOLDMAN S, PIROTTE B, WIKLER D, LUBANSU A, AEBY A, VAN BOGAERT P, DAVID P, BROTCHI J, LEVIVIER M. Résection Volumétrique de 22 Tumeurs Cérébrales Pédiatriques de Bas Grade Guidée par la Tomographie à Emission de Positons (TEP) utilisant le traceur [11C]-Méthionine. Société de neurochirurgie de

Langue française (SNCLF), Paris, France, novembre 2005.

291. PIROTTE B, GOLDMAN S, VAN BOGAERT P, DAVID P, WIKLER D, RORIVE S, BROTCHI J. Integration of 11C-Methionine-PET and MR Imaging for Image-Guided Surgical Resection of Infiltrative Low-Grade Brain Tumors in Children. Joint Meeting of the Swiss Pediatric Neurosurgery Group, St. Gallen, Suisse, 2-3 décembre 2005.

292. DE TIÈGE X, GOLDMAN S, LOSSIUS A, LASSOUED H, FRICXS C, DETEMMERMAN D, PIROTTE B, MASSAGER N, SALMON I, VAN BOGAERT P. Isolated angiitis of the CNS as a cause of “vanishing tumor”. Congrès de la Société Européenne de Neurologie Pédiatrique, décembre 2005.

293. PIROTTE B, FRICX C, VAN BOGAERT P. Low pressure hydrocephalus in children: 2 cases. Xth Anglo-

French Meeting for Pediatric Neurosurgery, Beaune, France, 19-22 mai 2005.

294. PIROTTE B, AEBY A, VAN BOGAERT P. Associated split cord and thetered cord in a child. Xth Anglo-French

Meeting for Pediatric Neurosurgery, Beaune, France, 19-22 mai 2005.

295. PIROTTE B, AEBY A, VAN BOGAERT P. Hydrocephalus occurring after fenestration of a subarachnoid cyst. Xth Anglo-French Meeting for Pediatric Neurosurgery, Beaune, France, 19-22 mai 2005.

296. PIROTTE B, LUBANSU A, ALESSI G, MORELLI D, VERHEULPEN D, FRICX C, DAVID P, BROTCHI J. Paralysie Faciale Périphérique dans les Kystes Arachnoidiens de la Fosse postérieure: a Propos de 2 Observations Documentées. Congrès de la Société Française de Neurochirurgie Pédiatrique, Aix-les-Bains, France, 3-5 juin 2005.

297. PIROTTE B, MASSAGER N, LEVIVIER M, BROTCHI J. Shunts and techniques of shunt. Symposium on

Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus. Bruxelles, 20 octobre 2005.

298. MORELLI D, PIROTTE B, ALESSI G, LUBANSU A, VERHEULPEN D, FRICX C, DAVID P, BROTCHI J. Facial Nerve Palsy in Posterior Fossa Arachnoid Cysts : Report of 2 Cases. Belgian Society for Neurosurgery,

Annual Meeting, Leuven, 19 mars 2005.

299. PIROTTE B. The Use of MR and PET Imaging in Pediatric Neuro-Oncology. Hôpital de La Timone, Université

de Marseille, Marseille, France, 10 juillet 2005.

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300. JANKOVSKI A, MASSAGER N, LEVIVIER M, DEWITTE O, PIROTTE B, LEFRANC F, LUBANSU A, BROTCHI J. Treatment strategy in the management of brain cavernomas. Belgian Society for Neurosurgery,

Annual Meeting, Leuven (Belgium), march 19th, 2005.

301. PIROTTE B. Importance of Functional Neurosurgery in Children. Functional Neurosurgery in Children.

Belgian Society for Neurosurgery, Spa, 4-6 mai 2006.

302. PIROTTE B. Literature on Neurosurgery of Pain in Children. Functional Neurosurgery in Children. Belgian

Society for Neurosurgery, Spa, 4-6 mai 2006.

303. PIROTTE B. les techniques de stimulation dans le traitement de la douleur. Société Luxembourgeoise de

Neurologie, Luxembourg (GD de Luxembourg), 10 février 2006.

304. PIROTTE B. Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) as a Tool for Improving Surgical Techniques Alleviating Severe Neuropathic/Phantom Pain. Allocution devant S.E. l’Ambassadrice des USA et S.A.R. le

Prince Philippe de Belgique, Bruxelles, 18 février 2006.

305. PIROTTE B. MCS for Central Post-stroke Pain Syndrome. Centenary of the Thalamic Pain, 5th International

Association for the Study of Pain –IASP- Research Symposium, MacMaster University, Toronto, ON, Canada, 6-9 juin 2006.

306. PIROTTE B, GOLDMAN S, WIKLER D, DAVID P, MASSAGER N, DEWITTE O, RORIVE S, BROTCHI J,

LEVIVIER M. [11C]Methionine-PET as a Tool for Improving Volumetric Surgical Resection of Low-Grade Gliomas in Adults: A Study Based on 63 Consecutive Procedures. Belgian Society for Neurosurgery, Annual

Meeting, Leuven, mars 2006.

307. PIROTTE B, GOLDMAN S, DEWITTE O, MASSAGER N, WIKLER D, LEFRANC F, OULAD BEN TAIB N, RORIVE S, DAVID P, BROTCHI J, LEVIVIER M. Integration of PET and MR imaging for image-guided surgical resection of brain tumors: Experience in 103 consecutive procedures. Belgian Society for Neuro-

Oncology (BANO), Leuven, mars 2006.

308. PIROTTE B. The role of PET in the diagnosis and surgical management of CNS glioma. Annual Meeting of the Belgian Association of neuro-Oncology (BANO), Brussels, 8 décembre, 2006.

309. GÜLTA"LI N, MABIGLIA C, ENGOHAN C, P!ROTTE B, BALÉRIAUX D, J!SSEND! P. Yedi Aylik Bebekte Serebellopontin Kose Yerlemsilmi Kapiller Anjiomix. Ulusal Manyetik Rezonans Sempozyumu, Ankara, Turquie, 25-27 mai 2006.

310. PIROTTE B, LUBANSU A, GOLDMAN S, WIKLER D, AEBY A, VAN BOGAERT P, DAVID P, BROTCHI J, LEVIVIER M. PET-guided stereotactic brain biopsies in Pediatric Brain Tumors: Benefit for the Management of Complex Cases. XXth biennial congress of the European society of Pediatric Neurosurgery. Fort-de-France, Martinique, mars 2006.

311. PIROTTE B, GOLDMAN S, WIKLER D, LUBANSU A, AEBY A, VAN BOGAERT P, DAVID P, BROTCHI J, LEVIVIER M. Volumetric Resection of 22 Pediatric low-grade brain tumors with PET-guidance using the tracer [11C]-Methionine. XXth biennial congress of the European society of Pediatric Neurosurgery. Fort-de-France, Martinique, mars 2006.

312. PIROTTE B, LUBANSU A, GOLDMAN S, WIKLER D, AEBY A, VAN BOGAERT P, DAVID P, BROTCHI J, LEVIVIER M. Early Post-operative PET as a Valid Basis for Considering Second-Look Surgery in Pediatric Brain Tumors. XXth biennial congress of the European society of Pediatric Neurosurgery. Fort-de-France, Martinique, mars 2006.

313. PIROTTE B, GOLDMAN S, LUBANSU A, MUZZI M, ACERBI F, VAN BOGAERT P, DAVID P, LEVIVIER M, BROTCHI J. Impact sur la stratégie chirurgicale de l’intégration de la TEP dans le bilan diagnostique des lésions cérébrales expansives chez 104 enfants. Société de Neurochirurgie de Langue Française, Paris, France, novembre 2006.

314. PIROTTE B, GOLDMAN S, LEVIVIER M. PET scan and molecular imaging in gliomas. 5th Conference

Course Dutch Society of Neuroradiology, Role of Imaging in the Management of Primary Brain Tumours.

Rotterdam, Holland, 29-30 juin 2006.

315. PIROTTE B, BRUNEAU M, LEVIVIER M, DAVID P, BROTCHI J. Surgical Management of Antero-Lateral Meningiomas of the Foramen Magnum. Annual Meeting of the Jiangsu Province Neurosurgical Society, Shanghai (China), may 2006.

316. PIROTTE B. SCHWAB M. Controversy on the STICH trial – Lancet 2005, “Do we know better the candidates for surgical treatment of brain hemorrhage after the STICH trial ?”. European Stroke Initiative (EUSI) of the

European Stroke Conference (ESC), Brussels (Belgium), 16-19 May, 2006.

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317. PIROTTE B. Functional Imaging in Pediatric Neurosurgery: the surgeon’s point of view. XXth biennial congress

of the European society of Pediatric Neurosurgery. Fort-de-France, Martinique, 10 mars 2006.

318. BRUNEAU M, LUBICZ B, OULAD BEN TAIB N, DE WITTE O, LEVIVIER M, BROTCHI J, PIROTTE B. Selective image-guided surgical exposure of the transverse sinus for direct transvenous embolization of dural arteriovenous fistula: Technical case report. Belgian Society for Neurosurgery, Annual Meeting, Leuven (Belgium), march 2006.

319. PIROTTE B, VOORDECKER P, METENS T, WIKLER D, DENOLIN V, NEUGROSCHL C, BALERIAUX D, BROTCHI J, LEVIVIER M. Understanding mechanisms of MCS in amputees and brachial plexus avulsion. 2007

Annual Meeting of the Benelux Neuromodulation Society. Brussels, Belgium. November 9-10th 2007.

320. LUBANSU A, MELHAOUI A, ESPOSITO M, SCHOEVART F, MASSAGER N, LEFRANC F, LEVIVIER M, DEWITTE O, BROTCHI J, PIROTTE B. Clinical evaluation of the help of the frameless neuronavigation in intracranial neuroendoscopic procedures in a serie of 14 patients. International Symposium for Neuroendoscopy, Versailles, Mai 2007.

321. PET-Guided volumetric resection of malignant brain tumors. Mexican Congress of Neurosurgery, Mexico City, Mexico, Plenary session conferences, july 9th, 2007.

322. PIROTTE B, LUBANSU A, VAN CUTSEM N, BYL B, Vandesteene A, BROTCHI J. L’application stricte d’une Technique sterile d’implantation Reduit le taux d’infection de shunt chez l’enfant: A propos de 115 Procédures Consecutives sans infection postoperatoire. Congrès Annuel de la Société de Neurochirurgie de Langue

Française, Punta Cana, République Dominicaine, June 9-16th, 2007.

323. CHAIRMANSHIP OF A PLENARY SESSION : Les tumeurs Cérébrales Pédiatriques. Congrès Annuel de la Société de

Neurochirurgie de Langue Française, Punta Cana, République Dominicaine, June 9-16th, 2007.

324. PIROTTE B, LUBANSU A, BRUNEAU M, LOQA C, VAN CUTSEM N, BROTCHI J. Reducing VP shunt infection in children: The major role of surgeons’s sterile technique in 115 consecutive procedures. International

Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery – ISPN, Liverpool, UK, September 9-12th, 2007.

325. PIROTTE B. Reducing VP shunt infection in children: is there a rationale ? International Joint Meeting of

Belgian and Dutch Societies for Neurosurgery, Oostende, Belgium, September 19th, 2007.

326. PIROTTE B. Shunt infection in children: Antibiotic-impregnated catheters, Choux’s protocol ? Is evidence lacking ?. Joint Meeting of the Dutch and Belgian Neurosurgical Societies, Oostende, Belgium, september 24th, 2007.

327. PIROTTE B. Preventing infection in shunts: Brussels’s experience. National Institute of Neurosurgery,

University of Beijing, Beijing, China, November 29th, 2007.

328. PIROTTE B, LUBANSU A, MASSAGER N, LEFRANC F, BRUNEAU M, VAN CUTSEM N, FRICX C, BYL B, VANDESTEENE A, BROTCHI J. Strict application of sterile Technique for Shunt placement Reduces the Shunt Infection Rate in Children: A Prospective series of 107 Consecutive Procedures with no postoperative infection. Belgian Society for Neurosurgery, Annual Meeting, Leuven, mars 2007.

329. ESPOSITO M, ABELOOS L, LUBANSU A, AEBY A, DETEMMERMAN D, WIKLER D, DAVID P, MASSAGER N, GOLDMAN S, BROTCHI J, PIROTTE B. PET-guidance increases the diagnostic yield and reduces the sampling of stereotactic biopsies in children with brainstem tumors. Belgian Society for

Neurosurgery, Annual Meeting, Leuven, mars 2007.

330. PIROTTE B, VAN CALENBERGH F. Intracranial ependymomas in children: Clinical experience. Annual

Meeting of the Belgian Association for neurooncology – BANO, Brussels, Belgium, September 20th, 2007.

331. PIROTTE B, LUBANSU A, BRUNEAU M, MASSAGER N, LEFRANC F, DAVID P, DEWITTE O, LEVIVIER M, BROTCHI J. Is routine preoperative endoscopic third ventriculostomy justified in the surgical management of posterior fossa tumors in children ? Analysis of a consecutive series of 160 cases. International

Symposium for Neuroendoscopy, Versailles, May 9-12th, 2007.

332. CHAIRMANSHIP OF A PLENARY SESSION : Imaged-guided neuroendoscopy. International Symposium for

Neuroendoscopy, Versailles, May 9-12th, 2007.

333. ESPOSITO M, ABELOOS L, LUBANSU A, AEBY A, DETEMMERMAN D, WIKLER D, DAVID P, MASSAGER N, GOLDMAN S, BROTCHI J, PIROTTE B. PET-guidance increases the diagnostic yield and reduces the sampling of stereotactic biopsies in children with brainstem tumors. Annual Meeting of the Italian

Society for Neurosurgery and joint meeting with the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Rome, Italy, June 20-26th, 2007.

334. PIROTTE B, ABELOOS L, ESPOSITO M, LUBANSU A, AEBY A, DETEMMERMAN D, WIKLER D,

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DAVID P, MASSAGER N, GOLDMAN S, BROTCHI J. PET-guidance increases the diagnostic yield and reduces the sampling of stereotactic biopsies in children with brainstem tumors. International Society for Pediatric

Neurosurgery – ISPN, Liverpool, UK, September 9-12th, 2007.

335. PIROTTE B. The Role of PET studies in the Management of Childhood Brain Tumors. World Federation of

Neurosurgical Societies Meeting, Nagoya, Japan, novembre 24th, 2007.

336. PIROTTE B. Utility of PET imaging in brain tumor surgery. National Institute of Neurosurgery, University of

Beijing, Beijing, China, November 29th, 2007.

337. LOQA C, LUBANSU A, AEBY A, DETEMMERMAN D, VAN CUTSEM N, VANDESTEENE A, BROTCHI J, PIROTTE B. Retrospective analysis of the Surgical technique with regards to age, weight and blood loss in the treatment of scaphocephaly in 66 children: A 10-year-experience. Belgian Society for Neurosurgery, Annual

Meeting, Leuven, mars 2007.

338. LUBANSU A, NZOKOU A, PIROTTE B, MASSAGER N, LEFRANC F, BROTCHI J, DEWITTE O. Evaluation of a handle-held pedicle drilling tool for help in posterior pedicle screw placement. Annual Meeting of

the Belgian Society for Neurosurgery, Leuven, Belgium, 17 march, 2007.

339. LUBANSU A., NZOKOU A., PIROTTE B., BROTCHI J., DEWITTE O. The anterior subluxation, an unusual complication of cervical arthroplasty: About 5 patients. Annual Meeting of the Belgian Society for

Neurosurgery, Leuven, Belgium, 17 march, 2007.

340. BRUNEAU M, ESPOSITO M, PIROTTE B, DEWITTE O, FRANSEN P, LEVIVIER M, BROTCHI J. Interest of the vertebral artery V3 segment transposition. Report of 2 cases. Annual Meeting of the Belgian Society for

Neurosurgery, Leuven, Belgium, 17 march, 2007.

341. LUBANSU A., NZOKOU A., PIROTTE B., BROTCHI J., DEWITTE O. La subluxation antérieure : Une complication inhabituelle de l’arthroplastie. A propos de 4 cas. Journées Françaises du Rachis, Nice, France, 7-11 mars, 2007.

342. PIROTTE B, BRUNEAU M, BALERIAUX D, BROTCHI J. Surgery of recurrent meningiomas. University of

Alicante Symposium of Neuroophtalmology, Altea-Alicante, Spain, May 18-20th, 2007

343. PIROTTE B. Les méningiomes du trou occipital, Mexican Congress of Neurosurgery, Mexico City, Mexico, Séance Francophone, july 9th, 2007.

344. BRUNEAU M, ESPOS!TO M, P!ROTTE B, DEW!TTE O, FRANSEN P, LEV!V!ER M, BROTCH! J. Interest of the vertebral artery V3 segment transposition. Reprt of 2 cases. Belgian Society for Neurosurgery, Annual

Meeting, Leuven (Belgium), march 2007.

345. PIROTTE B. Multidisciplinary approach of metabolic imaging and histology in gliomas. Annual Meeting of the

Belgian Club for Neuropathology, Ghent, Belgium, march 15th, 2008.

346. PIROTTE B. PET for surgery of brain tumors. Annual Neuromeeting, University of Sienna, Sienna, Italy, may 2008.

347. PIROTTE B. PET for surgery of pediatric brain tumors. University Hospital of Como, Como, Italy, may 2008.

348. PIROTTE B, JAMES S, LUBANSU A, BRUNEAU M, AEBY A, BROTCHI J, DEWITTE O. Sterile Surgical Technique for Shunt Placement Reduces the Shunt Infection Rate in Children: Preliminary Analysis of a Prospective Protocol in 115 Consecutive Procedures. Belgian Society for Neurosurgery, Liège, Belgium, march 11th, 2008.

349. PIROTTE B. Neurosurgical Management of Anterior Synostotic Plagiocephaly. Belgian Society for Stomatology,

La Hulpe, Belgium, march, 2008.

350. LUBANSU A, PIROTTE B, BRUNEAU M, ZEMMOUCHI A, RYNKOWSKI M, GURSCHI M, JAMES C, DEWITTE O. Minimally invasive techniques for posterior spinal fusion: A prospective evaluation of 75 consecutive cases. Annual Meeting of the Belgian Society for Neurosurgery, Liège, Belgium, march 11th, 2008.

351. BRUNEAU M, LUBANSU A, LEFRANC F, MASSAGER N, PIROTTE B, LUBICZ B, DEWITTE O. Surgery with control of the vertebral artery for tumoral processes: first two years experience. Belgian Society for

Neurosurgery, Annual Meeting, Liège (Belgium), march 2008.

352. PIROTTE B. Recurrent Meningiomas in Intraorbitar Meningiomas. Symposium on Neuro-Ophtalmology, Altea-Alicante, Spain, may 2-4th, 2008.

353. PIROTTE B. PET and SPECT in neurooncology. International Course of the EANS. Antwerp, Belgium,

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September, 2008

354. PIROTTE B, LUBANSU A, BRUNEAU M, MASSAGER N, LEFRANC F, DAVID PH, DEWITTE O, BROTCHI J. Is routine preoperative endoscopic third ventriculostomy justified in the surgical management of posterior fossa tumors in children ? Analysis of a consecutive series of 160 cases. Biannual Meeting of the

ISPN, Cape Town, South Africa, november 2008.

355. MFOU’OU S, NEUGROSCHL C, BALERIAUX D, PELC P, PIROTTE B. IRM fonctionnelle (IRMf) auditive par stimulation sonore monotonale multifréquentielle pour le ciblage fonctionnel de la stimulation corticale chirurgicale dans les acouphènes invalidants. Société de Neurochirurgie de Langue Française SNCLF – Paris, 2 – 5 novembre 2008.

356. LUBANSU A, PIROTTE B, BRUNEAU M, DEWITTE O. Reduction of bone failure associated with osteoporotic spine arthrodesis by using of a novel cannulated and fenestrated pedicle screw that allows cement injection through the implant. Communication à l’IMAST 2008

357. LUBANSU A, PIROTTE B, BRUNEAU M, DEWITTE O. Prospective evaluation of the interest of a free-hand electrical conductivity measuring device to reduce radiation exposure during fluoroscopically assisted pedicle screw fixation Communication à l’IMAST 2008

358. LUBANSU A, PIROTTE B, BRUNEAU M, DEWITTE O. Etude prospective randomisée évaluant l’intérêt de l’utilisation d’uninstrument de visée pédiculaire mesurant la conductivité osseuse pour optimaliser la mise en place des visses pédiculaires et réduire les doses d’irradiation reçues durant la réalisation d’arthrodèses posterieurs dorsolombaires sous guidage fluoroscopique. Communication à la société française de chirurgie du rachis,

SFCR juin 2008.

359. LUBANSU A, VINICHINI V, PIROTTE B, DEWITTE O. Interest of a Percutaneous Lumbar Interspinous Spacer as protection of adjacent-segmental deterioration after minimally invasive posterior arthrodesis: Preliminary results. Society of Minimal Invasive Spine Surgery, Henderson, Nevada, USA, novembre 2008.

360. PIROTTE B. Prise en charge chirurgicale des méningiomes antéro-latéraux du foramen magnum: Expérience personnelle dans 26 cas. Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, CH, decembre 2008.

361. PIROTTE B. Surgery of shunts and craniosynostoses. Nairobi University Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya, decembre 2008.

362. PIROTTE B. Functional neuroimaging and motor cortex stimulation. Beijing Tiantan University Hospital, Beijing, China, March 2009.

363. BOURGUIGNON M, DE TIÈGE X, BALERIAUX D, VOORDECKER P, OP DE BEECK M, MARTIN D, KASHTEN B, DEWITTE O, PIROTTE B. Combined functional neuroimaging (fMRI and MEG) for the guidance of epidural motor cortex stimulation in chronic refractory neuropathic pain: a pilot study. Annual Meeting of the Belgian Society for Neurosurgery, Liège, Belgium, March 2009.

364. PIROTTE B, BRUNEAU M, BROTCHI J, DEWITTE O. Postero-lateral retro/transcondylar approach for intradural antero-lateral foramen magnum meningiomas: Learning from experience in 26 consecutive cases. European Skull Base Meeting, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, april 2009.

365. RIDREMONT C, VANDEN EIJNDEN S, VILAIN C, PELC P, VERMEYLEN D, PIROTTE B, PARDOU A. Lethal respiratory distress due to tracheal anomalies in an infant with Pfeiffer syndrome type 2, c.1025G>C, p.Cys342Ser mutation. Annual Meeting of the Belgian Society for Pediatrics, Brussels, Belgium, march 2009.

366. BRUNEAU M, LUBICZ B, RYNKOWSKI M, SMIDA-RYNKOWSKA K, PIROTTE B, DEWITTE O. Long-term follow-up survey reveals a 65%-rate of de novo aneurysm formation more than 10 years after of ruptured intracranial aneurysms clipping. Annual Meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons CNS, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, November 2009

367. PIROTTE B. MCS for central neuropathic pain in 50 patients: Comparison study of Cortical brain mapping, BOLD-fMRI and MEG for improving functional targeting. WFNS Meeting, Boston, USA, September 2009.

368. PIROTTE B, VOORDECKER P, BALERIAUX D. Functional MR-guided Motor Cortex Stimulation technique in central post-stroke pain: Analysis of surgical results and technique. Annual Meeting of the German Society

for Neurosurgery, Munster, Germany, May 2009.

369. PIROTTE B, LEFRANC F, GOLDMAN S, LEVIVIER, BROTCHI J, DEWITTE O. PET-guided navigation-based volumetric resection of low grade gliomas: Methodology and preliminary results. Annual Meeting of the

German Society for Neurosurgery, Munster, Germany, May 2009.

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370. PIROTTE B, BRUNEAU M, BROTCHI J, DEWITTE O. Surgical Management 26 Antero-Lateral Meningiomas of the Foramen Magnum with the Posterolateral (Far-lateral) Approach: Our Learning Curve. Annual Meeting of

the German Society for Neurosurgery, Munster, Germany, May 2009.

371. BRUNEAU M, SAUVAGEAU E, NAKAJI P,PIROTTE B, DE WITTE O, SPETZLER RF. Application of the indocyanine green near-infrared videoangiography in extracranial vertebral artery surgery. Annual Meeting of the

German Society for Neurosurgery, Munster, Germany, May 2009.

372. PIROTTE B, BOURGUIGNON M, DE TIEGE X, BALERIAUX D, VOORDECKER P, OP DE BEECK M, MARTIN D, KASHTEN B, DEWITTE O. Combinaison de l’IRM fonctionnelle (IRMf) et de la Magnétoencéphalographie (MEG) pour Guider le Ciblage Sélectif des Aires Corticales Sensori-Motrices dans la Stimulation du Cortex Moteur dans la Douleur Neuropathique. Congrès annuel de la SNCLF, Paris, novembre 2009.

373. PIROTTE B, LEVIVIER M, GOLDMAN S, MASSAGER N, LEFRANC F, BROTCHI J, DEWITTE O. La Résection Complète de la Captation de Traceur PET Augmente la Survie des Gliomes de Haut Grade contrairement à la Résection Complète du Rehaussement après Gadolinium en IRM : Analyse chez 66 Patients Consécutifs. Congrès annuel de la SNCLF, Paris, novembre 2009.

6) SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS IN PEER REVIEW JOURNALS

1. PIROTTE B., WALTREGNY A. Indications récentes de la Chirurgie dans la maladie de Parkinson. Rev Med

Liège, 42, 19, 3-797, 1987.

2. PIROTTE B., BORN J.D., HANS P., REMACLE JM., ALBERT A. Hémorragies cérébro-méningées par rupture d'anévrysme artériel intracrânien : à propos d'une série de 206 cas. Rev Med Liège, 43, 5, 137-147, 1988.

3. LEVIVIER M., BROTCHI J., BALERIAUX D., PIROTTE B., FLAMENT-DURAND J. Sarcoidosis presenting as an isolated intramedullary tumor. Neurosurgery, 29, 271-276, 1991.

4. LEVIVIER M., BALERIAUX D., MATOS C., PIROTTE B., BROTCHI J. Intramedullary sarcoidosis. Neurology, 41: 1529-1530. 1991.

5. BROTCHI J., LEVIVIER M., RAFTOPOULOS C., DE WITTE O., PIROTTE B., NOTERMAN J. Three-quarter prone approach to the pineal-tentorial region. Report of seven cases. Acta Neurochir, 53, 144-147, 1991.

6. BROTCHI J., RAFTOPOULOS C., LEVIVIER M., DE WITTE O., PIROTTE B., NOTERMAN J. Lésions de la région pinéale et falco-tentorielle : abord occipito-pariétal en trois-quart ventral avec volet infrasagittal. Neurochirurgie, 37, 410 - 415, 1991.

7. LEVIVIER M., GOLDMAN S., PIROTTE B., BROTCHI J. First year experience using the Fisher ZD-Neurosurgical Localizing Unit with particular reference to the development of PET-guided stereotactic biopsy. Acta Neurol Belg, 93, 5-22, 1993.

8. GOLDMAN S., LEVIVIER M., BOUCQUEY D., BIDAUT LM., PIROTTE B., BRUCHER JM., LUXEN A., STANUS E., BROTCHI J., HILDEBRAND J. Correlation of glucose metabolism and histopathology of gliomas using PET-guided stereotactic biopsy. Neurology, 43, A249, 1993.

9. PIROTTE B., GOLDMAN S., BRUCHER JM., ZOMOSA G., BALERIAUX D., BROTCHI J., LEVIVIER M. PET in stereotactic conditions increases the diagnostic yield of brain biopsy. Stereotact funct Neurosurg, 63, 144-149, 1994.

10. GOLDMAN S., LEVIVIER M., PIROTTE B., BRUCHER JM., LUXEN A., STANUS E., DETHY S., BROTCHI J., HILDEBRAND J. Comparison between local methionine and glucose metabolism in gliomas using PET-guided stereotactic biopsy. Neurology 44, A330, 1994.

11. PIROTTE B., GOLDMAN S., BIDAUT L., LUXEN A, STANUS E., BRUCHER JM., BALERIAUX D., BROTCHI J., LEVIVIER M. Use of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) in Stereotactic Conditions for Brain Biopsy. Acta Neurochir, 134, 79-82, 1995.

12. LEVIVIER M., GOLDMAN S., PIROTTE B., BRUCHER JM., BALERIAUX D., LUXEN A., HILDEBRAND J., BROTCHI J. Diagnostic yield of stereotactic brain biopsy guided by positron emission tomography with [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose. J Neurosurg, 82:445-452, 1995.

13. SALMON I., RORIVE S., CAMBY I., DECAESTECKER Ch, PIROTTE B., ROMBAUT K., HAOT J., PASTEELS JL., BROTCHI J., KISS R. The diagnostic information contributed by the quantitative chromatin

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pattern description in stereotactic biopsies from astrocytic tumors. Analytic Quant Cytol Histol, 17 : 332-343, 1995.

14. DETHY S., KONOPNICKI D., PIROTTE B., LUXEN A., HILDEBRAND J., GOLDMAN S. Carbon-11-methionine and fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose PET study in brain abscess. Clin Neurol Neurosurg 97: 349-353, 1995.

15. DETHY S, MANTO M, KENTOS A, KONOPNICKI D, PIROTTE B, GOLDMAN S, HILDEBRAND J. PET findings in a brain abscess associated with a silent atrial septal defect Clin Neurol Neurosurg 97: 349-353(5), 1995.

16. PIROTTE B., HEILPORN A., JOFFROY A., ZEGERS de BEYL D., WESEL P., BROTCHI J., LEVIVIER M. Chronic intrathecal Baclofen in severely disabling spasticity : Selection, clinical assessment and long-term benefit. Acta Neurol Belg, 95, 216-225, 1995.

17. DELHAYE F., VINCENT JL., FERY F., PIROTTE B., UNGER J. Extreme polyuria : decompensated diabetes mellitus and/or diabetes insipidus ? Intens Care Med, 21: 515-521, 1995.

18. PIROTTE B., MATHY Ph. Comment j'explore une dilatation globale des ventricules cérébraux chez l'adulte agé. Rev Med Liège, 50: 8: 350-351, 1995.

19. DEBATISSE D., CORNETTE F., CASTERMANS M., WITDOECKT C., RAKET D., PIROTTE B., HOTERMANS JM., MATHY P., BOXUS A., BREVERS C., DEDIEGO M., GUERIT JM. Clinical interest of cognitive potentials P300 in psychotics. Brain Topography, 45 : 258-264, 1995.

20. COOL V., PIROTTE B., GERARD C., DARGENT JL., BAUDSON N., LEVIVIER M., GOLDMAN S., HILDEBRAND J., BROTCHI J.,VELU T. Curative potential of herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase gene transfer in rats with 9L glioblastoma. Human Gene Therapy, 7 : 627-635, 1996.

21. GOLDMAN S, LEV!V!ER M, P!ROTTE B, BRUCHER J-M, W!KLER D, DAMHAUT P, STANUS E, BROTCH! J, H!LDEBRAND J. Regional glucose metabolism and histopathology of gliomas. A study based on positron emission tomography-guided stereotactic biopsy. Cancer 78:1098-1106, 1996.

22. PIROTTE B. Chronic intrathecal Baclofen in severely disabling spasticity (Letter). Acta Neurol Belg, 96, 267-269, 1996.

23. BROHEE P, VIOLON P, MAVROUDAKIS N, PIROTTE B, BROTCHI J, ZEGERS DE BEYL D, HILDEBRAND J. Central nervous system lesions associated with Crohn's disease. J Neuroimaging, 7:195-8, 1997.

24. PIROTTE B., LEVIVIER M., BROTCHI J. Intrathecal Baclofen. (Letter), J Neurosurg, 86: 917-919, 1997.

25. PIROTTE B., BROTCHI J. 48 lymphomes cérébraux primitifs traités à ERASME. Série multicentrique française. Neurochirurgie, 43, 347-352, 1997.

26. GOLDMAN S., WIKLER D., DAMHAUT PH., MONCLUS M., LEVIVIER M., PIROTTE B., DE WITTE O., BROTCHI J., HILDEBRAND J. Positron emission tomography and brain tumours. Acta Neurol Belg, 97 : 183-186. 1997.

27. PIROTTE B., LEVIVIER M., GOLDMAN S., BRUCHER JM., BROTCHI J. HILDEBRAND J. Glucocorticoid-induced long-term remission in primary cerebral lymphoma : Case report and review of the literature. J

Neurooncol, 32 : 63-69, 1997.

28. PIROTTE B., GOLDMAN S., DAVID PH., WIKLER D., DAMHAUT P., VANDESTEENE A., SALMON I., BROTCHI J., LEVIVIER M. Stereotctic brain biopsy guided by positron emission tomography (PET) with (F-18)Fluorodeoxyglucose and (C-11)Methionine. Acta Neurochir 68:133-138, 1997.

29. GOLDMAN S, LEVIVIER M, PIROTTE B, BRUCHER J-M, WIKLER D, DAMHAUT P, DETHY S, BROTCHI J, HILDEBRAND J. Regional methionine and glucose uptake in high grade gliomas: a comparative study on PET-guided stereotactic biopsy. J Nucl Med 38:1459-1462, 1997.

30. GOLDMAN S, WIKLER D, DAMHAUT P, MONCLUS M, LEVIVIER M, PIROTTE B, DE WITTE O, BROTCHI J, HILDEBRAND J. Positron emission tomography and brain tumours. Acta Neurol Belg 97:183-186, 1997.

31. VIOLON PH., PATAY Z., BRAECKEVELDT J., PIROTTE B., KENTOS A., BROTCHI J., BALERIAUX D. An atypical infectious complication of anterior cervical surgery. Neuroradiology, 39: 278-281,1997.

32. PIROTTE B. Douleurs rapportées d'origine vertébrale. Rev Med Bruxelles, 19, 6, A511-A513, 1998.

33. PIROTTE B., BOLYN S., BRUCHER JM., BROTCHI J. Diagnostic and microsurgical presentation of

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intracranial angiolipomas. J Neurosurg, 88 : 129-132, 1998.

34. PIROTTE B., DAVID PH., NOTERMAN J., BROTCHI J. Lower clivus and foramen magnum anterolateral meningiomas : Surgical strategy. Neurol Res, 20, 577-584, 1998.

35. BROTCHI J., PIROTTE B., DEWITTE O., LEVIVIER M. Prevention of epidural fibrosis in a prospective series of 100 primary lumbo-sacral discectomy patients : Follow-up and assessment at re-operation. Neurol Res, 21, S47-S50, 1999.

36. CHRISTOPHE C., BALERIAUX D., FERSTER A., PIROTTE B., SARIBAN E., ZIEREISEN F., DAVID P. Imagerie post-thérapeutiques des tumeurs cérébrales. Radiologie, 19; 243-249, 1999.

37. PIROTTE B., BROTCHI J. SonoWand, an Ultrasound-based Neuronavigation System. Neurosurgery, 47:1380, 2000.

38. MASSAGER N., DAVID P. GOLDMAN S., PIROTTE B., WIKLER D., SALMON I., NAGY N., BROTCHI J., LEVIVIER M. Combined MR and PET imaging in brain mass lesions : diagnostic yield in a series of 30 stereotactically biopsied patients. Neurosurg Focus 8(2) : 2000.

39. MASSAGER N., DAVID P. GOLDMAN S., PIROTTE B., WIKLER D., SALMON I., NAGY N., BROTCHI J., LEVIVIER M. Combined MR and PET imaging in brain mass lesions : diagnostic yield in a series of 30 stereotactically biopsied patients. J Neurosurg, 3: 951-957, 2000.

40. BROTCHI J., LEFRANC F., DE WITTE O., PIROTTE B., LEVIVIER M. Cancer du cerveau. Oeuvre Belge du

Cancer. 2000.

41. PIROTTE B., VOORDECKER Ph., JOFFROY F., MASSAGER N., WIKLER D., BALERIAUX D., LEVIVIER M., BROTCHI J. The Zeiss-MKM system for frameless image-guided approach in epidural motor cortex stimulation for central neuropathic pain. Neurosurg Focus, 11(3), 2001.

42. SHAHAB! S, TECCO L, JAN! J, P!ROTTE B., RODESCH G, BAURA!N M, S!MON P, MASTERS L, RODESCH F. Management of a ruptured basilar artery aneurysm during pregnancy.Acta Chir Belg, 101:193-5, 2001.

43. TANNOUR! F, D!VANO L, CAUCHETEUR V, HACOURT A, P!ROTTE B, SALMON I, BALER!AUX D. Cavernous haemangioma in the cavernous sinus: case report and review of the literature. Neuroradiology 43:317-20, 2001.

44. NEUGROSCHL C, DAV!D P, SADEGH! N, SOEBERT A, P!ROTTE B, ROR!VE S, BALER!AUX D. Unusual CT features of dermoid cyst in the posterior fossa. Eur Radiol 12:2726-9, 2002.

45. BROTCHI J., DE WITTE O., LEFRANC F., LEVIVIER M., MASSAGER N., PIROTTE B. Le service de Neurochirurgie. Rev Med Bruxelles, Suppl. 2: 123-126. 2002.

46. PIROTTE B, GOLDMAN S, BALERIAUX D, BROTCHI J. Fluorodeoxyglucose and methionine uptake in Lhermitte-Duclos disease: case report. Neurosurgery 50:404-7, 2002.

47. LEVIVIER M, WIKLER D JR, MASSAGER N, DAVID P, DEVRIENDT D, LORENZONI J, PIROTTE B, DESMEDT F, SIMON S JR, GOLDMAN S, VAN HOUTTE P, BROTCHI J. The integration of metabolic imaging in stereotactic procedures including radiosurgery: a review. J Neurosurg 97: 542-50, 2002.

48. PIROTTE B, GABROVSKY N, MASSAGER N, LEVIVIER M, DAVID P, BROTCHI J. Synovial cysts of the lumbar spine: surgery-related results and outcome. J Neurosurg 99(Spine):14-9, 2003.

49. P!ROTTE B, GOLDMAN S, SALZBERG S, W!KLER D, DAV!D P, VANDESTEENE A, VAN BOGAERT P, SALMON I, BROTCH! J, LEV!V!ER M. Combined positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging for the planning of stereotactic brain biopsies in children: experience in 9 cases. Pediatr Neurosurg

38:146-55, 2003.

50. LUBANSU A., RORIVE S., DAVID P., SARIBAN E., SELIGMANN R., BROTCHI J., PIROTTE B. Cerebral anaplastic pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma with meningeal dissemination at first presentation : case report. Childs

Nerv Syst 20:119-22, 2004.

51. PIROTTE B, GOLDMAN S, MASSAGER N, DAVID P, Wikler D, LIPSZYC M, SALMON I, BROTCHI J, LEVIVIER M. Contribution of [F-18]fluorodeoxyglucose and [C-11]methionine in PET-guided Stereotactic biopsies of 32 gliomas in close relationship with the grey matter. J Nucl Med 45:1293-8, 2004

52. PIROTTE B, GOLDMAN S, MASSAGER N, DAVID P, Wikler D, LIPSZYC M, SALMON I, BROTCHI J, LEVIVIER M. combined use of [F-18]fluorodeoxyglucose- and [C-11]methionine PET in 45 Stereotactic brain biopsies. J Neurosurg 101:476-83, 2004.

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53. P!RENNE J, VANGELDER F, KHARKEV!TCH T, NEVENS F, VERSLYPE C, PEETERMANS W, K!TADE H, VANHEES L, DEVOS Y, HAUSER M, HAMO!R E, NO!ZAT-P!RENNE F, P!ROTTE B. Tolerance of liver transplant patients to strenuous physical activity in high altitude. Am J Transplant 4:554-60, 2004.

54. PIROTTE B., WIKLER D., DAVID P., LEFRANC F., BROTCHI J., LEVIVIER M. Magnetic Resonance Angiography-Guided Navigation for the Clipping of Distal Aneurysms : Technical Case Reports. Neurol Res 26 :429-434, 2004.

55. PIROTTE B, VOORDECKER P, NEUGROSCHL C, BALERIAUX D, WIKLER D, METENS T, DENOLIN V, JOFFROY A, MASSAGER N, BROTCHI J, LEVIVIER M. Combination of functional magnetic resonance imaging-guided neuronavigation and intraoperative cortical brain mapping improves targeting of motor cortex stimulation in neuropathic pain. Neurosurgery 56: 344-59; discussion 344-59, 2005.

56. PIROTTE B, NEUGROSCHL C, METENS T, WIKLER D, DENOLIN V, VOORDECKER P, JOFFROY A, MASSAGER N, BROTCHI J, LEVIVIER M, BALERIAUX D. Comparison of functional MR imaging guidance to electrical cortical mapping for targeting selective motor cortex areas in neuropathic pain: a study based on intraoperative stereotactic navigation. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 26: 2256-66, 2005.

57. PIROTTE B, LEVIVIER M, MORELLI D, VAN BOGAERT P, DETEMMERMAN D, DAVID P, BALERIAUX D, BROTCHI J, GOLDMAN S. Positron emission tomography for the early postsurgical evaluation of pediatric brain tumors. Childs Nerv Syst 21: 294-300, 2005.

58. PIROTTE B, GOLDMAN S, VAN BOGAERT P, DAVID PH, WIKLER D, SALMON I, BROTCHI J, LEVIVIER M. Integration of [11C]methionine-positron emission tomographic and magnetic resonance imaging for image-guided surgical resection of infiltrative low-grade brain tumors in children. Neurosurgery 57: 128-39; discussion 128-39, 2005.

59. BROTCHI J, BALERIAUX D, KALANGU KKN, MORELLI D, RODESCH G, RORIVE S, PIROTTE B. Capillary Hemangioma in the Superior Sagittal Sinus as a Rare Cause of Intracranial Hypertension in a Child: Case Report. Neurosurgery 57; 4, 815-816, 2005.

60. MORELLI D, PIROTTE B, LUBANSU A, DETEMMERMAN D, AEBY A, FRICX C, BERRE J, DAVID P, BROTCHI J. Persistent hydrocephalus after early surgical management of posterior fossa tumors in children: is routine preoperative endoscopic third ventriculostomy justified? J Neurosurg pediatrics 103: 247-52, 2005.

61. PIROTTE B, GOLDMAN S, BIDAUT LM, et al. Use of positron emission tomography in pediatric brain tumors. Pediatr Blood Cancer 44:103–113, 2005.

62. PIROTTE B, MORELLI D, ALESSI G, LUBANSU A, VERHEULPEN D, FRICX C, DAVID P, BROTCHI J. Facial nerve palsy in posterior fossa arachnoid cysts: report of two cases. Childs Nerv Syst 21:587-90, 2005.

63. PIROTTE B, GOLDMAN S, DEWITTE O, MASSAGER N, WIKLER D, OULAD BEN TAIB N, RORIVE S, DEVRIENDT D, DAVID P, BROTCHI J, LEVIVIER M. Integrated positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging-guided resection of brain tumors: a report of 103 consecutive procedures. J Neurosurg 104:238-53, 2006.

64. LUBICZ B, LEFRANC F, LEVIVIER M, DEWITTE O, PIROTTE B, BROTCHI J, BALERIAUX D. Endovascular treatment of intracranial aneurysms with a branch arising from the sac. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 27: 142-7, 2006.

65. LUBICZ B, GRACA J, LEVIVIER M, LEFRANC F, DEWITTE O, PIROTTE B, BROTCHI J, BALERIAUX D. Endovascular treatment of MCA aneurysms. Neurocrit Care 5:93-101, 2006.

66. PIROTTE B. Comments on : Intraspinal synovial cysts: a retrospective study. Acharya R, Patwardhan RV, Smith DR, Willis BK, Fowler M, Nanda A. Neurol India 54: 38-41, 2006.

67. PIROTTE B, BROTCHI J. Comment Lhermitte-Duclos Disease : 11C methionine PET data in 4 patients. F. Van Calenbergh et al., Surgical Neurol 65: 293-297, 2006.

68. PIROTTE B, VOORDECKER Ph, BROTCHI J, LEVIVIER M. Anatomical and physiological basis, clinical and surgical considerations, mechanisms underlying efficacy and future prospects of cortical stimulation for pain. Acta

Neurochir Suppl. 97: 81-89, 2007.

69. PIROTTE B, VOORDECKER Ph, BALERIAUX D, WIKLER D, LEVIVIER M. Motor Cortex Stimulation in central post-stroke pain. Neuromodulation (Suppl) ; 2007.

70. PIROTTE B, ACERBI F, LUBANSU A, GOLDMAN S, LEVIVIER M, BROTCHI J. PET Imaging in the Surgical Management of Pediatric Brain Tumors. Childs Nerv Syst 23:739-751, 2007.

71. PIROTTE B. Care of posterior plagiocephaly in the infant. Rev Med Brux 28:124-126, 2007.

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72. PIROTTE B, LUBANSU A, BRUNEAU M, VAN CUTSEM N, LOQA C, BROTCHI J. Sterile surgical technique for shunt placement reduces the shunt infection rate in children: preliminary analysis of a prospective protocol in 115 consecutive procedures. Childs Nerv Syst 23:1251-1261, 2007.

73. PIROTTE B, LUBANSU A, MASSAGER N, W!KLER D, GOLDMAN S, LEV!V!ER M. Results of positron emission tomography guidance and reassessment of the utility of and indications for stereotactic biopsy in children with infiltrative brainstem tumors. J Neurosurg 107:392-399, 2007.

74. BRUNEAU M, LUB!CZ B, P!ROTTE B, W!KLER D, BROTCH! J, LEV!V!ER M. Selective image-guided venous sinus exposure for direct embolization of dural arteriovenous fistula : technical case report. Surg Neurol, 69:192-6, 2008.

75. PIROTTE B, VOORDECKER P, NEUGROSCHL C, BALERIAUX D, WIKLER D, METENS T, DENOLIN V, JOFFROY A, MASSAGER N, BROTCHI J, LEVIVIER M. Combination of functional magnetic resonance imaging-guided neuronavigation and intraoperative cortical brain mapping improves targeting of motor cortex stimulation in neuropathic pain. Neurosurgery 62 (Suppl 3):941-956, 2008.

76. PIROTTE B, LEV!V!ER M, GOLDMAN S, MASSAGER N, W!KLER D, DEW!TTE O, LEFRANC F, ROR!VE S, DAV!D P, BROTCH! J. PET-Guided Volumetric Resection of Supratentorial High Grade Gliomas: A Survival Analysis in 66 Consecutive Patients. Neurosurgery, March 2009.

77. BRUNEAU M, LUB!CZ B, BALER!AUX D, RYNKOWSKY M, DE W!NDT A, P!ROTTE B, DEW!TTE O. Cervical vertebral artery rerouting: a technique for releasing kinks and restoring endovascular access. Neurosurgery, in press, 2009.

78. PIROTTE B, LUBANSU A, MASSAGER N, W!KLER D, VAN BOGAERT P, LEV!V!ER M, BROTCH! J, GOLDMAN S. Clinical Impact of integrating PET Imaging in Surgery of 85 Pediatric Brain Tumors. J

Neurosurg (in press), 2010.

79. PIROTTE B, LUBANSU A, MASSAGER N, W!KLER D, VAN BOGAERT P, LEV!V!ER M, BROTCH! J, GOLDMAN S. Clinical Interest of integrating PET Imaging in the Work-up of 55 Pediatric Incidentally Diagnosed Brain Lesions. J Neurosurg (in press), 2010.

80. PIROTTE B, BRUNEAU M, BROTCHI J, DEWITTE O. Postero-Lateral Transcondylar Approach for Intradural Antero-Lateral Foramen Magnum Meningiomas: Surgical Experience and considerations at the Radiosurgical Era. Neurosurgery (in press), 2010.

81. LUBANSU A, ABELOOS L, STALLENBERG B, P!ROTTE B, BROTCH! J, DEW!TTE O Comparative analysis between a synthetic beta-tricalcium phosphate (#-TCP) implant using as bone substitute for anterior cervical fusion and a titanium cage (BAK/C), in a series of 30 cases of soft-disc cervical herniation. Eur spine J

(Submitted), 2009.

82. LUBANSU A, MAK!ESE O, STALLENBERG B, P!ROTTE B, BROTCH! J, DEW!TTE O Cervical prosthesis subluxation: an unreported complication of cervical arthroplasty. J Neurosurg (Submitted), 2009.

83. BOURGU!GNON M, DE T!ÈGE X, OP DE BEECK M, P!ROTTE B, VAN BOGAERT P, GOLDMAN S, HAR! S, JOUSMÄK! V. Functional motor mapping using corticokinetic coherence in MEG. Biomag (submitted), 2010.

7) TEXTBOOK CHAPTERS

84. GOLDMAN, S., V!OLON, P., DE W!TTE, O., LEV!V!ER, M., P!ROTTE B., DAMHAUT, P., W!KLER, D., STANUS, E., AND HILDEBRAND, J. PET-FDG in glioma: relationship to local histology and prognostic

value in low grade tumor and early after surgery. In: r. A. M. o. t. S. o. N. Medicine (ed.) J Nucl Med, Vol. 37, pp. 21P. Denver, USA, 1996.

85. LEVIVIER, M., GOLDMAN, S., PIROTTE B., BROTCHI, J. Stereotactic brain biopsy guided by positron

emision tomography with [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose and [11C]methionine. In: T. C. o. t. E. S. f. S. a. F. Neurosurgery (ed.) Acta Neurochir, 138: 601-602, 1996.

86. LEVIVIER M., GOLDMAN S., PIROTTE B., WIKLER D., BROTCHI J. Positron Emission Tomography in

Stereotactic Conditions as a Functional Imaging Technique for Neurosurgical Guidance. In: E. B. Alexander and R. M. Maciunas (eds), Advanced Neurosurgical Navigation. Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc., New York 1999, pp. 85-99.

87. PIROTTE B. Combined use of [F-18]fluorodeoxyglucose and [C-11]methionine in PET-guided stereotactic brain biopsies. In : E. Hayat (ed), Cancer Imaging, Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc., New York 2006.

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88. BROTCHI J, PIROTTE B. Sphenoid Wing Meningiomas. In : L. Sekhar and R. Fessler (eds), Atlas of Neurosurgical Techniques. Springer-Verlag 2006.

89. PIROTTE B, BROTCHI J. Lateral and middle sphenoid wing meningiomas. In: J Lee (ed), Meningiomas, Springer, 2008.

90. PIROTTE B, FRANSEN P. History of surgery of the vertebral artery. In: M Bruneau, B George, R Spetzler (eds), the Vertebral Artery, Thieme, 2009 (in press), 2009.

91. PIROTTE B. Techniques of implantation and complications. In: S Canavero (ed), Textbook of therapeutic cortical stimulation, (in press), 2010.

92. GOLDMAN S, PIROTTE B. PET & PET/CT in Brain Tumors. In: J Walker (ed), Textbook on Positron Emission Tomography in Methods of Molecular Biology, Thieme, (in press), 2010.

8) TEACHING ACTIVITIES

Université Libre de Bruxelles – University of Brussels

1. Co-Promotor of Thesis in Medicine (Sharon TAMIR, MD: Positron Emission Tomography in the Clinical

Management of Pediatric Brain Tumors) 2003.

2. Pediatric Neurooncology Monthly (3 hours /month) 2000 – 2009.

3. Neurosciences Tribune Weekly (1 hour /week) 2005 – 2008.

Belgian Society for Neurosurgery

1. First Belgian Workshop on Pediatric Neurosurgery. Brain tumors. Ostende, 2001.

2. Second Belgian Workshop on Pediatric Neurosurgery. Hydrocephalus. Spa, 2002.

3. Third Belgian Workshop on Pediatric Neurosurgery. Craniosynostoses. Ostende, 2004.

4. Fourth Belgian Workshop on Pediatric Neurosurgery. Functional Neurosurgery. Spa, 2006.

5. Continuing education in Neurosurgery (Inter-University Course) : Pediatric brain tumors 1998, Trigeminal

Neuralgia 2002, Functional Neurosurgery 2006, Pediatric brain tumors and craniosynostoses 2007.

European Societies

6. European Conituing Medical training (ECMT)

Intrathecal Baclofen Therapy of spasticity: Clinical assessment. Genk, 22-23 1997.

Intrathecal Baclofen Therapy of spasticity: Spasticity of supraspinal origin. Genk, 22-23 1997.

Intrathecal Baclofen Therapy of spasticity: Technical details - types of equipment. Rome, Italie,1997.

Intrathecal Baclofen Therapy of spasticity: Complications and trouble shooting. Rome, Italie, 1997.

Motor Cortex Stimulation for neuropathic pain: Technique, results and major issues. Bruxelles, 2004.

7. European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS)

Motor Cortex Stimulation for Neuropathic Pain. EANS Course, Prague, Tchéquie, 2005.

Metabolic imaging in brain tumors. EANS Course, Antwerp, Belgium, 2008.

9) SUMMARY OF INVITED LECTURES

Use of PET in pediatric brain tumors. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Meeting, Birmingham (UK), 26-27 nov 2002.

Integrating functional imaging into the planning of image-guided brain surgery. University of Arkansas Medical School

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(UAMS), Little Rock, AR, USA, 22 février 2005.

MCS for Neuropathic Pain. EANS pre-meeting Course on Functional Neurosurgery , Prague, Tchéquie, 19 février 2005.

The Use of MRI and PET Imaging in Neuro-Oncology. European Concensus Conference on Perspectives in CNS Malignancies,

Prague, Tchéquie,17-18 juin 2005.

Combination of PET and MR in the Image-Guided Surgery of Brain Gliomas. 13th World Congress of neurological Surgery, Marrakech, Maroc, 19-24 juin 2005.

PET-Guided neurosurgery. Europ Assoc of Nuclear Medicine (EANM), Annual Meeting, Istambul, Turquie, novembre 2005.

The Use of MR and PET Imaging in Pediatric Neuro-Oncology. Hôpital de La Timone, Univ de Marseille, France, 10 juillet 2005.

Les techniques de stimulation dans le traitement de la douleur. Soc Lux de Neurologie, GD de Luxembourg, 10 février 2006.

Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) as a Tool for Improving Surgical Techniques Alleviating Severe Neuropathic/Phantom Pain. Allocution devant S.E. l’Ambassadrice des USA et S.A.R. le Prince Philippe de Belgique,

Bruxelles, 18 février 2006.

Functional Imaging in Pediatric Neurosurgery: the surgeon’s point of view. XXth biennial congress of the European society of

Pediatric Neurosurgery. Fort-de-France, Martinique, 10 mars 2006.

MCS for Central Post-stroke Pain Syndrome. Centenary of the Thalamic Pain, 5th International Association for the Study of

Pain –IASP- Research Symposium, MacMaster University, Toronto, Canada, 6-9 juin 2006.

Surgical Management of Antero-Lateral Meningiomas of the Foramen Magnum. Annual Meeting of the Jiangsu Province

Neurosurgical Society, Shanghai, China, may 2006.

Controversy on the STICH trial – Lancet 2005, “Do we know better the candidates for surgical treatment of brain hemorrhage after the STICH trial ?”. European Stroke Initiative (EUSI) of the European Stroke Conference (ESC), Brussels (Belgium), 16-19 May, 2006.

PET scan and molecular imaging in gliomas. 5th Conference Course Dutch Society of Neuroradiology, Role of Imaging in the

Management of Primary Brain Tumours. Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 29-30 juin 2006.

The Role of PET studies in the Management of Childhood Brain Tumors. World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies Meeting,

Nagoya, Japan, novembre 24 th, 2007.

Utility of PET imaging in brain tumor surgery. National Institute of Neurosurgery, Univ of Beijing, China, November 29th, 2007.

PET-Guided volumetric resection of malignant brain tumors. Mexican Congress of Neurosurgery , , Mexico, Plenary session

conferences, july 9th, 2007.

Les méningiomes du trou occipital, Mexican Congress of Neurosurgery, Mexico City, Mexico, Séance Francophone, july 9th, 2007.

Multidisciplinary approach of metabolic imaging and histology in gliomas. Annual Meeting of the Belgian Club for

Neuropathology, Ghent, Belgium, march 15t h, 2008.

PET for surgery of brain tumors. Annual Neuromeeting, University of Sienna, Sienna, Italy, may 2008.

PET for surgery of pediatric brain tumors. University Hospital of Como, Como, Italy, may 2008.

PET and SPECT in neurooncology. International Course of the EANS. Antwerp, Belgium, September, 2008.

Prise en charge chirurgicale des méningiomes antéro-latéraux du foramen magnum: Expérience personnelle dans 26 cas. Centre

Hospitalier Universitaire, Lausanne, CH, decembre 2008.

Surgery of shunts and craniosynostoses. Nairobi University Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya, decembre 2008.

Functional neuroimaging and motor cortex stimulation. Beijing Tiantan University Hospital, Beijing, China, March 2009.

MCS for central neuropathic pain in 50 patients: Comparison study of Cortical brain mapping, BOLD-fMRI and MEG for improving functional targeting. WFNS Meeting, Boston, USA, September 2009.

La stimulation du cortex moteur dans la douleur neuropathique. Centre Hospitalier Vaudois, Lausanne, CH, January 13, 2010.

PET in brain tumors. University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, January 21, 2010

Le spina bifida et les anomalies occultes de la moêlle basse: Traitement chirurgical en 2010. Séminaires de neuropédiatrie

belge, Bruxelles, Februrary 2010.

Combination of cortical mapping, fMRI and MEG in motor cortex stimulation, University of Liège, Liège, march 2010.

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