Clinical Abdominal Imaging Review

Online Course

Focus on honing your abdominal imaging diagnostic skills. This special course combines 26 traditional case reviews with 6 didactic lectures with deeper insights into abdominal imaging.

Learning Outcomes and Modules

• After completing this course, the learner should be able to recognize the imaging and clinical features that allow for refinement of differential diagnosis enabling a more specific diagnosis; outline management decisions affecting a variety of commonly encountered clinical scenarios;  judge some of the more commonly encountered artifacts in abdominal imaging and describe why they occur and techniques to avoid them; and more.

• • • Liver—H. Zafar
    • Biliary Tree and Gallbladder—M. Lubner
    • Colon and Rectum—M. Feldman
    • Pancreas—S. Wells
    • Esophagus and Small Bowel—P. Liu

Module 2

• • • Kidney—C. Moreno
    • Female Pelvis—S. Erickson
    • Male Pelvis—M. Heller
    • Kidneys, Ureters, Bladder—F. Souza
    • Calcifications—R. Sanyal

Module 3

• • • Disorders in the Liver: Hepatic Lesion Characterization—P. Liu (didactic lecture)
    • Spleen—M. Feldman
    • Pancreas—N. Hansen
    • Mesentery and Peritoneum—R. O’Malley
    • Small Bowel—S. Wells

Module 4

• • • Hysterosalpingography, Renal Cell Carcinoma—C. Moreno (didactic lecture)
    • Female Pelvis—S. Erickson
    • Male Pelvis—M. Heller
    • Kidneys/Collecting System—F. Souza
    • Retroperitoneum—M. Gulati

Module 5

• • • Renal Calcification: Differential Diagnosis—M. T. Heller, MD (didactic lecture)
    • Adrenal and Retroperitoneum—M. Gulati, MD 
    • Female Pelvis—A. Kielar, MD 
    • Male Pelvis—M. A. Manning, MD
    • Kidneys, Ureters, Bladder—F. Ferreira Souza, MD 
    • Dual-Energy CT: Renal Applications—M. T. Heller, MD (didactic lecture)

Module 6

• • • Small Bowel—P. Shou-Cheng Liu, MD (didactic lecture)
    • Biliary Cases—M. K. Feldman, BS, MD 
    • Stomach and Esophagus—N. Hansen, MD 
    • Pancreas—R. O’Malley, MD 
    • Liver—S.  A. Wells, MD 
    • Contemporary Issues in MR Enterography—P. Shou-Cheng Liu, MD (didactic lecture)