OVERVIEW

The gastrointestinal Imaging Course is organized by Gage Continuing Education (CE).

Overview:
Gastrointestinal Imaging Cases features more than 150 gastrointestinal cases grouped according to organ system. Emphasizing clinical application, each case includes presentation, findings, differential diagnosis, comments, pearls, and numerous images. The book offers an efficient, systematic, and visual approach to help you better understand gastrointestinal imaging and sharpen your diagnostic skills. Covering a wide range of general clinical topics of interest to practicing imaging clinicians, Gastrointestinal Imaging Cases cover the liver, biliary, pancreas, esophagus, gastroduodenal, small bowel, colorectal, omentum, mesentery, abdominal wall, peritoneum.

The book's easy-to-navigate organization is specifically designed for use at the workstation. The concise, quick-read text, numerous images, and helpful pearls speed and simplify the learning process.

Features:
• Organ-specific organization
• More than 975 multi-modality images
• More than 150 classic case presentations with a strong focus on differential diagnosis
• Covers a wide range of clinical topics
• Consistent chapter organization

Course Description:
On completion of this course, the participant should be able to:
• List three symptoms of a simple hepatic cyst.
• Name the preferred imaging modality to diagnose acute cholecystitis.
• List three different morphologic patterns of serous cystadenoma.
• Name the most common organ affected by a splenic hydatid cyst.
• List the most common drugs that cause drug-induced esophagitis.
• Give another name for linitis plastica.
• Define small bowel diverticulitis.
• Describe the cause of inflammation of the appendix.
• Name the most common primary tumor of the mesentery.
• List the symptoms of a mesenteric cyst.