Abdominal and Thoracic Imaging Guidelines Applied: Evidence Versus Opinion

Abdominal and Thoracic Imaging Guidelines Applied: Evidence Versus Opinion is organized by American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS).

Date of issuance: February 8, 2021
Date of expiration: February 7, 2024

Description:
Each lecture in this focused Touchstone Course offers a concise overview of guidelines for common abdominal imaging findings on ultrasound, CT, and MRI. Emphasizing evidence-based management recommendations—supported by the literature and guidelines from both radiology and specialty societies—these high-impact lectures will help optimize clinically relevant reports and knowledge of when follow-up is not indicated.

Learning Objectives and Modules:
After completing this course, the learner should be able to:
• Compare and contrast radiology and clinical guidelines used to report and manage common imaging findings and pathology in the lung, liver, pancreas, endometrium, adrenal gland, rectum, thyroid, and kidney. 
• Distinguish which abdominal radiology and clinical management guideline recommendations are supported by evidence, natural history, and/or outcomes.
• Understand when follow-up for abdominal imaging findings is not supported or can be stopped, based on evidence, for common abdominal imaging findings. 
• Issue guideline-consistent and evidence-based management recommendations for organ and disease-based abdominal imaging findings.

Module 1
• Guidelines Related to Thyroid Nodules: An Overview—D. Baumgarten
• Endometrial Thickness for Pre and Postmenopausal Patients—K. Patel-Lippmann
• Adnexal Cystic Masses—A. Wnorowski 
• Imaging of Liver Masses in Cirrhosis—L. Alexander 
• Optimizing Management of Renal Masses on Imaging: Where’s the Evidence?—H. Zafar

Module 2
• Adrenal Nodules—N. Mallak
• Cystic Pancreatic Lesions—N. Gandhi
• A Radiologist’s Guide to Incidental Pulmonary Nodules—M. Hershman
• Masses in the Non-Cirrhotic Liver—D. Asch
• MRI for Restaging of Rectal Cancer: What the Radiologist Needs to Know—Z. Kassam

Note: Earn credit at your own pace through February 7, 2024 and continue to access your videos until February 6, 2031

5.5 MOC | 5.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™