Pre-Meetings

(subject to change)

ISOLS Young Surgeons: Chondrosarcoma

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
Stolz 1

Registration is required for attendance.
Registration fee: 100.00 €

08:00 – 08:15Registration
08:20 – 08:30Welcome
08:30 – 10:30

Session 0.1: Basics (Radiology, Pathology, Surgery)
Chairs: Nina Engel (Germany),  Mariel Spense (Argentina)

08:30 – 08:35Introduction
08:35 – 08:55Lizz Van Der Heijden (The Netherlands), Michiel Van Der Sande (The Netherlands): Quiz at beginning (Junior presenters with questions by seniors)
08:55 – 09:20Jendrik Hardes (Germany): Basic Radiology of Cartilaginous Tumours
09:20 – 09:45Eric Staals (Italy): Basic classification of benign/intermediate cartilaginous tumours and chondrosarcoma
09:45 – 10:10Minna Laitinen (Finland): Basic surgical techniques of cartilaginous tumours – curettage, adjuvants, resection
10:10 – 10:30Christoph Hofer (Austria), Humaid Al Farri (Oman): Quiz after basic sessions
10:30 – 11:00Coffee break
11:00 – 13:00

Session 0.2: Advanced Surgery
Chairs: Rishi Agarwal (India), Haije Liang (China)

11:00 – 11:05Introduction
11:05 – 11:30Juan Pablo Zumárraga (Ecuador): Multimodal treatment concepts – which lesions should undergo active surveillance? Is chemotherapy an option?
11:30 – 11:55Ajay Puri (India): Advanced surgical techniques – biological reconstructions
11:55 – 12:20Odion Binitie (United States): Advanced surgical techniques – endoprosthetic reconstruction
12:20 – 12:45Wei Guo (China): Advanced surgical techniques – pelvic chondrosarcomas
12:45 – 13:00Alexander Lazarides (United States), Steven Thorpe (United States): Poll about cases
13:00 – 13:45Lunch Break
13:45 – 15:45Hands-On Workshop
15:45 – 17:00

Session 0.3: Difficult cases
Chair: Maria Anna Smolle (Austria)

15:45 – 15:50Introduction
15:50 – 16:25Takuto Itano (Japan), Shintaro Iwata (Japan): Presentation of difficult cases (1)
16:25 – 17:00Phil Rowell (Australia), Scott Sommerville (Australia): Presentation of difficult cases (2)
17:00ISOLS Young Surgeons Networking event

Musculoskeletal Tumour Surgery for Surgeons from Developing Countries

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
Stolz 2

Attendance is included in the Meeting registration fee.
08:00 – 08:15Registration
08:15-08:30Francisco Linares (Colombia): Welcome Chair 1st session
08:30 – 08:45David Wood (Australia): Introduction, Aetiology of sarcomas
08:45 – 09:00Duncan Whitwell (United Kingdom): Basic Principles, clinical presentation
09:00 – 09:15Ather Siddiqi (United Kingdom): Establishing an MDT: experiences from Pakistan
09:15 – 09:30Reshwin Rajan (Fiji): Late presentations in a resource limited setting
09:30 – 09:50Duncan Whitwell (United Kingdom): Staging of musculoskeletal tumours
09:50 – 10:10Peter Steadman (Australia): Principles of biopsy
10:10 – 10:30David Wood (Australia): Imaging of bone and soft tissue tumours
10:30 – 11:00Coffee break
11:00 – 11:15Valerae O. Lewis (United States): Chair 2nd session & Surgical margins
11:15 – 11:35David Wood (Australia): Amputation v limb salvage
11:35 – 11:55Justin Bird (United States): Orthopaedic Oncology in a resource limited practice in Liberia
11:55 – 12:15Zeeshan Khan (Pakistan): Infection in the differential diagnosis of sarcoma
12:15 – 12:30Ather Siddiqi (United Kingdom): Skeletal metastases
12:30 – 13:00Faculty
Case discussions
13:00 – 13:45Lunch break
13:45 – 14:00Peter Steadman (Australia): Chair 3rd session & Soft tissue sarcomas
14:00 – 14:30Lee Jeys (United Kingdom): Cartilage tumour conundrums
14:30 – 14:45Ather Siddiqi (United Kingdom): Multidisciplinary bone tumour management
14:45 – 15:15David Wood (Australia): Case examples all faculty
15:15 – 15:45Afternoon tea
15:45 – 16:15Duncan Whitwell (United Kingdom): Chair 4th session & A team approach to abdominal sarcoma surgery
16:15 – 16:30Juan Pablo Zumárraga (Ecuador): Access to adjuvant chemical physical therapies in a middle-income country
16:30 – 16:45Francisco Linares (Colombia): Resource restrictions and Sarcoma management
16:45 – 17:30Faculty
Strategies to develop a specialist sarcoma service with limited resources