Dear Friends,
To finish the chapter on male breast disease I am showing mammograms with selected pathology in four different males with palpable retro-areolar lesions. Try to match each case (A-D) with the correct diagnosis.
1. Gynecomastia
2. Carcinoma
3. Epidermoid cyst
4. Simple cyst
Dear Friends,
This week I’m showing a new ‘Face the Examiner’ case. Presenting the radiographs of a 49-year-old woman with dyspnea.
Dear Friends,
Today we’re presenting a routine chest control of a 53-year-old woman who had a lumpectomy for carcinoma of the breast three years ago. Radiographs were read as normal. Do you agree? Any ideas?
Dear Friends,
Today, we’re showing you radiographs of a 29-year-old non-European male with moderate dysphagia. Questions:
1. Where is the lesion?
2. What would be your diagnosis?
Dear Friends,
This week we have the case of a 45-year-old man, who is an alcoholic with abdominal pain, jaundice, and weight loss.
Possible diagnoses:
1. Duodenal neoplasm
2. Focal pancreatitis of pancreatic head
3. Pancreatic neoplasm
4. None of the above
Dear Friends,
Muppet insists on presenting another case of inspiration/expiration films to test your knowledge. Showing radiographs of a 29-year-old asymptomatic female. What do you think is happening?
29 y.o. asymptomatic female
Dear Friends,
Today I’m showing a case of a 63-year-old man with left heart dysfunction and angor.
Dear Friends,
While I was in Vienna, Muppet prepared the following case for you: 21-year-old girl with marked dyspnea, no fever. What do you think it’s happening?
Inspiration – 21-year-old girl with marked dyspnea, no fever.
ECR Today spoke with the next ECR president, Prof. Valentin Sinitsyn. He is chief of the radiology department at the Federal Centre of Medicine and Rehabilitation in Moscow, Russia, and currently serves as president of the European Society of Cardiac Radiology (ESCR).
ECRT: What will be the main highlights of ECR 2014’s scientific programme?
Valentin Sinitsyn: Prepare for more interactivity. People are increasingly interested in interactive sessions to assess what they have learned from a lecture. The ECR has been developing interactive sessions for several years now, but we want to increase that. Today, you can find a lot of information on the internet and many people might not think it is necessary to travel to a congress. We want to create something attractive and show that it is worth coming here. Nothing can replace shaking hands with your colleagues from other countries. I would be very sad if the ECR were entirely online. This is why we are making live meetings more interactive.
ECR 2014 Congress President Valentin Sinitsyn, from Moscow, Russia.
We would also like to change the format of scientific sessions. Our lectures have the same format they had one or two hundred years ago: a stage and an auditorium. We are currently discussing the concept of a multimedia classroom, a model which was successfully introduced during the last SIRM congress in June 2012. This multimedia classroom offered 60 work stations from different companies with 25 different cases which were discussed at the end. We are currently discussing the structure with Professor E. Neri from Pisa, who was responsible for the scientific programme of that project.
Soon we are going to use smart phones for voting during audience response sessions. But wireless technology has its limits and sometimes networks crash, so it needs a lot of work. Keypads are an old technology but they are very reliable. I am sure that next year, or the year after that, everybody will be able to vote with their own iPads or tablets.
We will also increase the number of multidisciplinary sessions. This is not something we have to do just during the ECR. This year we had the Imaging Biomarker’s Course the day before the congress, which was organised by the European School of Radiology. This will take place again next year with radiation oncology as the topic.
Watch this session on ECR Live: Monday, March 11, 16:00–17:30, Room F1
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Tablet computers can be a surprisingly divisive subject. The passion with which some people argue the relative merits of competing devices and operating systems can be almost frightening. In the field of medicine, however, there appears to be very little argument about the top product, with professionals from many disciplines enthusiastically embracing the iPad as a tool for research, education and general communication. Instead the most important debate is focused elsewhere, on matters of data security and patient privacy.
As mobile technology spreads throughout the hospital, data naturally follows, and it is slowly falling into the hands of an increasingly broad spectrum of people. Radi-ologists and clinicians therefore need to be aware, not just of the many mobile applications and resources that can potentially aid their work, but of the associated risks and best practices concerning the use of tablet technology.
Dr. Erik Ranschaert (left – pictured here with Dr. Jan Schillebeeckx) from ‘s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands, will speak on mobile telera-diology with tablet computers in this Special Focus Session
