Program Objectives
 

• Discuss radiologic-pathologic correlation in the diagnosis of CNS tumors and infections.
• Identify classic anatomy and pathologies of the sinonasal cavity and of the temporal bone.
• Recognize common neuroimaging artifacts and fix them using principles of imaging physics.

Program Objectives
 

Smoking-related Lung Injury

• Appreciate the spectrum of smoking-related lung injuries that can variably co-exist in the same patient
• Know the inflammatory forms of lung injury in smokers, including respiratory bronchiolitis, DIP, and PLCH
• Recognize the irreversible forms of lung injury in smokers, including emphysema and fibrosis
• Compare the sensitivity of CT imaging vs. pulmonary function testing (spirometry) in COPD patients

Transformations towards Pulmonary Fibrosis

• Describe pathways from lung injury to lung organization, and recognize the potential for evolution towards fibrosis
• Identify the characteristic CT findings of organizing pneumonia and pulmonary fibrosis
• Recognize the typical clinical scenario and imaging appearance of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, and refine your understanding of “usual interstitial pneumonia”
• Appreciate the wider differential diagnosis of fibrotic interstitial lung diseases, including characteristic patterns and potential discerning factors

RadPath Highlights in Diffuse Lung Disease

• Review the classic imaging for a selection of diffuse interstitial lung diseases
• Understand the correlative concepts in pathophysiology, including the variable impact of lung injury on secondary lobular architecture
• Develop an approach to imaging analysis in diffuse ILD, including assessment of parenchymal opacities, their relationship to lobular architecture, and patterns of anatomic distribution

Spectrum of Thoracic Aortic Disease

• Recognize vulnerable sites, complications, and surgical classification of blunt traumatic aortic injury
• Describe pathophysiology, clinical settings, and imaging features of aortic aneurysm
• Define acute aortic syndromes & variants including: Aortic dissection, Penetrating aortic ulcer, Intramural hematoma, Intramural blood pool/branch artery pseudoaneurysm, Ulcer-like projection/focal intimal disruption

Approach to Thoracic Vasculitis

• Recognize that optimal diagnosis requires multidisciplinary collaboration
• Describe clinical and radpath features of the idiopathic large vessel vasculitides
• Define the category of ANCA-associated vasculitis and characteristic imaging appearances
• Appreciate the radiologic spectrum and etiologies of diffuse pulmonary alveolar hemorrhage

Deep Dive into Bronchiectasis: RadPath Case Seminar

• Describe acquired and congenital mechanisms leading to bronchiectasis
• Explain the diagnostic significance of imaging features of morphology, distribution, and concomitant findings in bronchiectasis
• Recognize the important clinical factors that impact differential diagnosis

Program Objectives
 

Pediatric Hepatobiliary Tumors             

• Describe the imaging approach to a child with a liver mass
• List the differentiating clinical and imaging features of common liver tumors in children
• Apply these features to provide appropriate imaging differential diagnosis of pediatric hepatobiliary tumors

Pediatric Renal Tumors            

• Describe the imaging approach to a child with a renal mass
• List the differentiating clinical and imaging features of common renal tumors in children
• Apply these features to provide appropriate imaging differential diagnosis

Pediatric Peritoneal, Omental, and Mesenteric Masses           

• Briefly describe relationship of peritoneal spaces and where disease tends to occur based on gravity and fluid flow
• List differential diagnosis for focal mass of the peritoneal cavity
• List differential diagnosis for diffuse masses of the peritoneal cavity
• Identify distinguishing features of these tumors on imaging

Cystic Renal Disease of Childhood  

• Describe the underlying cause of cystic renal dysplasia
• Define the term ciliopathy and explain how inherited cystic renal diseases are related
• Distinguish between different types of cystic renal diseases on imaging

Pediatric Pulmonary Cystic Lesions              

• Provide a differential diagnosis for air-filled pulmonary cysts in children
• Provide a differential diagnosis for fluid-filled cysts
• Briefly describe distinguishing features of each diagnosis

Pediatric Abdominal/Pelvic Cysts             

• Briefly describe the embryologic origin of the common abdominal cysts
• Provide an appropriate refined imaging differential diagnosis for an abdominal or pelvic cystic lesion in a child based on distinguishing imaging and clinical features