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

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.

ARRS Member price: $745
ARRS In-Training Member price: $375
Nonmember price: $995

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Earn credit at your own pace through June 29, 2032 and continue to access your videos until June 29, 2033. See below for detailed information and learning outcomes.

This course offers 27 CME following completion of an online test.

Video content for this Online Course will be available to view until June 29, 2033, which is ten years following the issuance date of this course. ARRS reserves the right to remove video content before the end of the ten year period. Video content that contradicts current science or misleads the viewer based on changes to accepted clinical practice may be removed on a case-by-case basis.

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
 

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Or consider the stand-alone book.

ARRS is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education activities for physicians.

The ARRS designates this enduring material for a maximum of 27 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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