08:30 - 13:00 SURGICAL WORKSHOP for Non-Surgeons
(Policlinico Hospital)

08:30 - 10:30 Early Stage and Locally Advanced Thymoma
Chairs: Chairs: Giuseppe Cardillo (Rome, Italy), Filippo Tommaso Gallina (Rome, Italy)

08:30 - 09:15 Part 1 - Early Stage Thymoma
Complete thymectomy for early stage thymoma: technical aspects and oncological implications (Lecture + Clinical case presentation), Francesco Guerrera (Turin, Italy)
Limited thymectomy for early stage thymoma: technical aspects and oncological implications (Lecture + Clinical case presentation), Emanuele Voulaz (Milan, Italy)

DISCUSSANT: Christopher Nabel (Boston, USA)
Q&A, Discussion 


09:15 - 10:30 Part 2 - Locally Advanced Thymoma
Extended resections for locally advanced thymoma: technical aspects and surgical outcomes (Lecture + Clinical case presentation), Giovanni Comacchio (Padova, Italy)
Q&A, Discussion

Extended resections for locally advanced thymoma: implications of induction treatment
PRO: Giovanni Leuzzi (Milan, Italy)
CON: Luigi Ventura (Sheffield, UK)

Q&A, Discussion

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:45 Metastatic Thymoma and Surgical Techniques
Chairs: Lorenzo Rosso (Milan, Italy), Stylianos Korasidis (Pisa, Italy)

11:00 - 11:45 Part 3 - Metastatic Thymoma
Surgery of pleural metastases: technical aspects and long-term outcome (Lecture + Clinical case presentation), Vittorio Aprile (Pisa, Italy)
Surgery of distant metastases: technical aspects and long-term outcome (Lecture + Clinical case presentation), Charalambos Zisis (Athens, Greece)

DISCUSSANT: James Wilson (London, UK) 
Q&A, Discussion


11:45 - 12:45 Part 4 - Surgical Techniques: How to navigate technological advances
VATS thymectomy (lateral approach), Joshua Sonett, (New York, USA)
RATS thymectomy (lateral approach), Luca Luzzi (Siena, Italy)
RATS thymectomy (subxiphoid), Alessio Mariolo (Paris, France)
RATS thymectomy SP, Edoardo Mercadante (Rome, Italy)
Q&A, Discussion

12:45 - 13:30 LUNCH BREAK

13:30 - 16:30 ITMIG Committee Meetings
All ITMIG members are welcome!