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1st Athens Seven Gliomas Surgery Course

Grey Matter Dissection

18:00 – 19:00 · Friday 23 October 2026 (1 hour)

SPEAKERS

Aristotelis KALYVAS Aristotelis KALYVAS MD, MSc, PhD, FCNS, Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Attending Neurosurgeon, 2nd Department of Neurosurgery, Attikon University Hospital, Athens, Greece

Silvius Dissection Room, 1st floor

Preparing the hemisphere for white matter dissection

Master station: A. Kalyvas

Under stepwise guidance, participants remove the cortical grey matter using fine metallic periosteal elevators or wooden spatulas. Dissection proceeds to the superficial U-fibre layer, exposing its short association fibres while preserving the underlying white matter architecture. The prepared hemispheres will be used for the lateral-to-medial dissection session on Saturday.