Federle’s Master Tutorial on Abdominal Imaging: How to Develop an Expert Differential Diagnosis using Decision-Support Tools 2021

Federle’s Master Tutorial on Abdominal Imaging: How to Develop an Expert Differential Diagnosis using Decision-Support Tools 2021

Course Description

Educational Objectives

• Describe the availability and use of decision-support tools for radiologists, to facilitate making more accurate and clinically useful diagnoses.
• Create an interactive learning environment in which the registrants will be challenged to diagnose a large number of common and less common disorders by specific imaging tests with appropriate clinical correlation.
• Describe the appropriate use of imaging modalities including CT, MR, sonography and fluoroscopy for the most important abdominal disorders likely to be confronted by radiologists.
• Emphasize the need for critical thinking and judicious use of imaging, laboratory, and clinical testing.
• Provide an opportunity for extensive discussion, questions, and feedback between the registrants and speaker.

Course Curriculum

• – Decision-Support Tools for Radiologists
• – Acute Right Upper Quadrant Pain
• – Acute Left Lower Quadrant Pain
• – Cystic Pancreatic Mass
• – Cystic Hepatic Mass
• – Cystic Renal Mass
• – Focal Lesion in the Non-Cirrhotic Liver
• – Focal Lesion in the Cirrhotic Liver
• – Abdominal Hemorrhage
• – Fluoroscopy in the CT-Endoscopy Era (Evaluation of Post-Operative Complications)
• – Bariatric Surgery
• – Anti-Reflux Surgery
• – Ivor-Lewis Esophagectomy (and Variants)
• – Dilated Bowel
• – Small Bowel Wall Thickening
• – Colonic Wall Thickening
• – Malpractice Issues in Abdominal Imaging