Pitfalls and Challenging Cases: How to Triumph and Make the Diagnosis

Pitfalls and Challenging Cases: How to Triumph and Make the Diagnosis is organized by American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS).

Expiration Date: June 29, 2033

Earn credit at your own pace through June 29, 2032 and continue to access your videos until June 29, 2033.

Description:
Focusing exclusively on interpretative skills for avoiding misdiagnoses across a wide spectrum of pitfalls, this course tackles challenging cases within neuroradiology, abdominal, chest, and musculoskeletal imaging. Topics emphasize real-life clinical scenarios while providing tips and tricks for optimal performance - ultimately, enhancing your ability to add value to patient management.

Learning Outcomes and Modules
After completing this course, the learner should be able to:

• Identify and characterize relevant pitfalls and misdiagnoses.
• Give a differential diagnosis, when necessary, and suggest the next best diagnostic or management strategy.
• Apply practice-based strategies for optimizing patient outcomes.
• Communicate recommendations for follow-up appropriately.

Module 1: Pitfalls in Brain Imaging: Masses and Mimics

• Dementia Imaging—Mohit Agarwal
• Stroke and Mimics—Lily Wang
• Primary Pediatric Posterior Fossa Tumors: An Illustrative Review—William O’Brien
• Sella and Parasellar Masses—Karen Salzman

Module 2: Pitfalls in Head and Neck Imaging

• Skull Base Masses: Lesions at a Crossroads—Lea Alhilali
• Making Me Nervous: Tips and Tricks for Evaluating Perineural Spread—Jennifer Gillespie
• Orbit Masses—Mari Hagiwara
• Imaging Approach to Sinonasal Masses: Pitfalls and Distinguishing Features—Deborah Shatzkes

Module 3: Pitfalls in Spine Imaging

• Pain in the Neck—Lubdh Shah
• Finding the Leak: Tips for CSF Leak and Venous Fistula Localization for the Radiologist—Andrew Callen
• Spinal Cord Processes—Marin McDonald
• Imaging Findings That Mimic Tumor in Patients with Low Back Pain—Vinil Shah

Module 4: Pitfalls in Hepatobiliary, Pancreatic, Renal Imaging

• Diffuse Liver Disease: Hepatic Steatosis, Iron Deposition, Fibrosis, and Elastography—Elainea Smith
• Chronic Inflammatory Conditions of the Biliary System: Imaging Highlights and Updates—Senta Berggruen
• Pancreatic Tumors and Inflammation—Samuel Galgano
• Renal Adrenal Imaging—Ashkan Malayeri

Module 5: Pitfalls in Abdominopelvic Imaging

• Bowel Imaging—Janelle West
• Nomograms for Stratifying Men for Risk of Harboring Prostate Cancer: A Primer for Radiologists—Kristin Porter
• Pitfalls in Gynecological Imaging—Priyanka Jha
• Abdominopelvic Molecular Imaging—Samuel Galgano

Module 6: Pitfalls in Cardiovascular/Interstitial Lung Disease

• Diagnosis of Interstitial Lung Disease—Kimberly Kallianos
• Imaging of the Large Airways: Pitfalls and Pearls—Brent Little
• Imaging of Pulmonary Arteries and Aorta—Ashley Prosper
• Cardiac Findings on Nongated Chest CT Pitfalls—Nikhil Goyal

Module 7: Pitfalls in Oncology and Infection

• Skull Base Masses: Lesions at a Crossroads—Lea Alhilali
• Making Me Nervous: Tips and Tricks for Evaluating Perineural Spread—Jennifer Gillespie
• Orbit Masses—Mari Hagiwara
• Imaging Approach to Sinonasal Masses: Pitfalls and Distinguishing Features—Deborah Shatzkes

Module 8: Pitfalls in Upper Extremity in MSK Imaging

• Shoulder Imaging—Karen Chen
• Elbow Imaging—Kathryn Stevens
• Two Views, Six Findings: Uncovering Hidden Diagnoses on Wrist Radiographs—Catherine Petchprapa
• MRI of the Hand—Christine Chung

Module 9: Pitfalls in Lower Extremity in MSK Imaging

• MR Neurography of the Pelvis and Lumbosacral Plexus—Jenny Bencardino
• Hip Imaging—Stacy Smith
• Knee Imaging—Avneesh Chhabra
• Ankle and Foot Imaging—Connie Chang