ISSA BASEM

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Director of the Department of Microsurgery for Central Nervous System Disorders at Metropolitan General

EDUCATION & ACADEMIC TITLES

WORK EXPERIENCE

MEMBER OF COMPANIES, EDITORIAL BOARD OF JOURNAL EDITORS

RESEARCH PROGRAMMES

HONOURABLE DISTINCTIONS

“PCMtm Artificial Cervical Disc” - (Certificate for the 1st implantation of the PCMtm Artificial Cervical Disc in Greece) Cervitech Inc. Athens, Greece. April 2, 2005.

PUBLICATIONS

Bretakos, G., M. Issa, E. Halari, Z. Kontouli, and S. Tzanis. "Comparative Study between Laminectomy and Laminoplasty for Multilevel Cervical Myelopathy Due to Cervical Spondylosis." Published Fourmonthly Official Journal of the Hellenic Society of Neurosurgery 9.1 (2002): 33-40. Print.
Bretakos, G., M. Issa, L. Taxa, Z. Kontouli, and S. Tzanis. "Lumbar Mikrodiskektomi - Surgical Technique - Statistical Results." Published Fourmonthly Official Journal of the Hellenic Society of Neurosurgery 8.3 (2001): 151-56. Print.
“Cervical Arthroplasty - fitting artificial cervical disc in patients with herniated disc cervical spine.” Triantafyllou T., Grigoriou N., Issa M., Libiridis S., Liveranou S., Taha L., Tzanis S. Neurosurgical Department, Iaso General Hospital. 32nd Spine congress. Killinis, Greece. June 2006.
“Cervical arthroplasty: artificial fitting cervical disc in 27 patients with herniated disc cervical spine in the last two years.” T. Triantafyllou, S. Lipiridis, M. Issa, S. Liveranou, L. Taha, S. Tzanis. Neurosurgical Clinic, Iaso General Hospital.21st Panhellenic Neurosurgical Congress. Rhodes, Greece. 16-17 May 2007.
“Dealing with upper gastrointestinal bleeding emergency surgery.” Issa M., Malegos D., Kalahoras L., Kitsou Christina., Gousis P., Tatoulis P., Legakis N., 4th Surgery Clinic, University of Athens “Damon Vasileiou” Nikaia, Pireus, Greece.
“Diagnostic approach to bleeding in the posterior fossa”. A. Mitsos, P. Sioutos, G. Tsanis, G. Kikebous, M. Issa, G. Orfanidis, A. Levedis. Panhellenic Congress of Neurosurgery. Kavalla, 18-20 November 1999.
“Endoscope – assisted transsphenoidal approach for total removal of hypophyseal adenomas: a preliminary report.” Spyros D. Tzanis, George Vretakos, George Papageorgiou, Basem Issa, George Kontogeorgos, Athanassios Souvtzoglou, Elena Chalari, George Pavlidis, Panagiotis Vlahopoulos. 8th International Pituitary Pathology Meeting. Delphi and Athens, Greece. October 5-9, 2001.
“Hydrocephalus: etiology, treatment, complications and outcome” S. Mourgela, P. Sioutos, G. Kikebous, G. Tzanis, M. Issa, E. Adoniou, G. Orfanidis, S. Homatas, A. Levedis. 12th Panhellenic Neurosurgical Congress. Delphi, 19-21. 11. 1998
Robotic-Brain lab: the surgical treatment of skull base tumor. Our experience. N. Grigoriou, M. Issa, G. Vretakos, L. Taha, L. Masoura, E. Halari, S. Tzanis. Hygeia Hospital. Athens, Greece.
“Sella turcica mass lesion: Our Experience the last three years.” S. Lipirides, T. Triantafillou, M. Issa, S. Liveranou, L. Taha, S. Tzanis. Neurosurgical Clinic, Iaso General Hospital. 21st Panhellenic Neurosurgical Congress. Rhodes, Athens. 16-17 May 2007.
“Surgical treatment of epilepsy. Preliminary notice.” S. Tzanis, S. Gianakodimos, G. Vretakos, E. Halari, M. Issa, A. Masoura, L. Taha, K. Karageorgiou. 14th Panhellenic Neurosurgical Conference. Thessaloniki, Greece . 25- 27 November 2000.
“The Nefroploigisi in the surgical treatment of skull tumor base. Our experience” N. Grigoriou, M. Issa, G. Vretakos, L. Taha, L. Masoura, E. Halari, S. Tzanis. Hygeia Hospital. Athens, Greece.
“The Psychiatric symptoms in patients with brain tumors” B. Bretakos, M. Issa, A. Masoura, Z. Kontoula, S. Tzanis. Greek Neurosurgery 8: 103 – 107, 2001.
“The remedy of acute ischemic stroke. Our strategy” N. Grigoriou, M. Issa, L. Taha, G. Bretakos, G. Papageorgiou, P. Vlahopoulos, G. Pavlidos, L. Masoura, E. Halari, S. Tzanis. Hygeia Hospital. Athens, Greece.
“The stereotactic localization and intraoperative navigation in patients with brain tumors and pituitary.” S. Tzanis, G. Vretakos, E. Hlari, M. Issa, L. Taha, L. Masoura. 14th Panhellenic Neurosurgical Conference. Thessaloniki, Greece . 25- 27 November 2000.
“The surgical treatment of intracranial aneurysm in the last five years”. T, Triantafylou, N. Grigoriou, S. Liveranou, M. Issa, G. Papageorgiou, G. Vretakos, L. Taha, S. Tzanis. Neurosurgical Department – IASO General Hospital, Athens, Greece. 19th Panhellenic Neurosurgical Congress. May 2005. Athens, Greece.
“The surgical treatment of arteriovenous malformations of the CNS the last five years” T, Triantafylou, N. Grigoriou, S. Liveranou, M. Issa, G. Papageorgiou, G. Vretakos, L. Taha, S. Tzanis. Neurosurgical Department – IASO General Hospital, Athens, Greece. 19th Panhellenic Neurosurgical Congress. May 2005. Athens, Greece.
“Treatment of Brain Aneurysms. A 5 Year retrospective study. Our strategy and conclusions. 2- The use of Neuronavigation systems in the surgical treatment of skull base tumours, our experience, and a 5-year retrospective study: Nikolas Grigoriou, Tzanis S., Papageorgiou G., Tacha L., Issa B., Liveranou S., Triadafilou., Pavlidis G., Vlahopoulos P.
Triantafyllou, T., S. Lipiridis, M. Issa, E. Papadopoulos, S. Liveranou, L. Tacha, and S. Tzanis. "Treatment of Cervical Spondylosis Using a Hybrid of Artificial Disc and Intervertebral Cage-Presentation of 2 Cases." 13th European Congress of Neurosurgery (2007): 571-76. Print.
Vretakos, G., M. Issa, A. Masoura, Z. Kontouli, and S. Tzanis. "Psychiatric Symptomatology in Brain Tumors." Published Fourmonthly Official Journal of the Hellenic Society of Neurosurgery 8.2 (2001): 103-07. Print.