ABDOMINAL ULTRASOUND MASTER COURSE

(Skill Perfection Masterclass series in Abdominal ultrasound including elastography and Doppler )

12 Modules with in-depth learning

Modules twice a month on Wednesdays

7-9 pm IST

Course Start Date: 18th December 2024, Wednesday

Notes with Q and A

Self-Assessment

Pre-session suggested reading

Faculty:

Dr Alka Singhal

Delhi NCR India

Introduction to course

This comprehensive Abdominal ultrasound master course is your one stop solution to abdominal ultrasound learning, starting from basics knobology, artefacts, transducer selection, presets, ultrasound technique and image optimisation, basics of Doppler principles, Practical skills, implementation and interpretation. The course includes understanding of Advanced modalities of elastography and CEUS. It covers all the essential abdominal organs in great detail. Dedicated modules are assigned for liver chronic liver disease, portal hypertension, cirrhosis, elastography, doppler, hepatic infections and benign and malignant tumours, and post-transplant liver evaluation. Common and uncommon pathologies of gall bladder and hepatobiliary tract, spleen, pancreas are included in dedicated modules. A special module covers the ultrasound evaluation of the gastrointestinal tract, acute appendicitis, intussesption and other common ultrasound pathologies in paediatric and adult age group. The final modules cover the genitourinary tract , with a dedicated module for kidneys and urinary tract, followed by gynaecology modules covering the uterine ovarian and adnexal pathologies.

Come one ! Come All ! Come with all your inquisitiveness to learn, and enhance your skills, and with all your questions. Interactive QA session is available at the end of each module.

 
Tentative Scientific Schedule

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Details of the Modules

Module 1 - Basics of Ultrasound, Colour Doppler and Elastography

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• Ultrasound Physics, knobology, artefacts, transducer selection, presets, ultrasound technique and image optimisation.  
• Basics of Doppler principles, Practical skills, implementation and interpretation.  
• Understanding of Advanced modalities of elastography and CEUS (Contrast enhanced ultrasound). Bioeffects of ultrasound Imaging.  

Module 2 – Ultrasound of Liver – Normal, Congenital and infective diseases.

• Liver: Normal ultrasound appearances; size and echotexture assessment. Segmental Anatomy and identification on ultrasound.   
• Congenital abnormalities : Hepatic cysts, peribiliary cysts, polycystic hepatic disease, biliary hamartoma.  
• Infectious diseases: Viral Hepatitis, Hepatic Abscess- Pyogenic and fungal.  Parasitic diseases: Amoebic liver Abscesses and hydatid disease

Module 3 - Ultrasound of Liver – Chronic liver diseases and Colour Doppler

• Fattly Liver , NAFLD (Non alcoholic fatty liver disease), and Role of Elastography and Ultrasound Fat Quantification  
• Hepatic cirrhosis and Portal hypertension  
• Doppler evaluation in chronic liver disease, TIPS Shunt evaluation , PVT, Budd Chiari Syndrome  

Module 4 - Ultrasound of Liver – Neoplasm and liver transplant

• Liver : Hepatic Masses: Benign and Malignant ;Detection and characterisation of focal hepatic lesions.
• Benign hepatic neoplasms : Hemangioma (Typical and atypical, appearances, small and large lesions), FNH (Focal Nodular hyperplasia) Hepatic Adenoma, Hepatic Lipomas and angiomyolipomas  
• HCC (Hepatocellular carcinomas) and metastatic liver disease.
• Hepatic Trauma. Role of CEUS (Contrast enhanced ultrasound)  
• Post liver transplant Doppler and Intraoperative hepatic ultrasound  

Module 5 – Spleen, Biliary tract, gall bladder and pancreas

• Spleen : Sonoanatomy, situs inversus and identification of spleen, size and echotexture assessment.
• Accessory spleen and splenenculus. Splenic cysts: simple and hydatid cysts. Splenic nodular lesions and tuberculosis of spleen, Gamma Gandy Bodies. Splenic microabscesses and large abscesses. Focal solid lesions: Hodgkins disease and Non Hodgkins lymphoma. Splenic Metastasis. Splenic Trauma  
• The biliary tract: Normal anatomy: Choledochal cysts, carolis disease, evaluation of cholestatic jaundice. Choledocholithiasis and scanning tips for better demonstration and to avoid pitfalls. IHBRD (Intrahepatic biliary tract dilatation), Pneumobilia, Cholangitis, Cholangiocarcinoma  
• Gall Bladder : Normal size range and wall assessment. Gall Bladder wall edema. Cholelithiasis (types and sizes) Biliary Sludge, Cholecystistis- Acute and Chronic Cholecystitis. Gall bladder perforation. Porcelain Gall bladder. Poypoidal masses of Gall Bladder: Cholesterol polyps, GB adenomas and malignancies.  

Pancreas : Sonoanatomy and technique of ultrasound evaluation. Normal parenchymal appearances and size. Assessment of pancreatic duct. Acute Pancreatis and evaluation of complications. Chronic Pancreatitis. The diagnostic spectrum. Pancreatic SOL -cystic and solid and pancreatic masses, Pancreatic Carcinoma. GEP-NET’s (Gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors). Role of CEUS

Module 6 - Gastrointestinal tract

• Role of ultrasound imaging in the evaluation of gastrointestinal tract: Anatomy and sonographic technique, Graded compression sonography: The Gut signature, Doppler evaluation of gut wall, CEUS and elastography of bowel.   
• Acute Appendicitis: perforation of appendix, periappendiceal abscess, appendicolith, Mucocele of appendix   
• Acute Diverticulitis and Acute typhlitis. Acute omental infarction. Inflammatory bowel disease: Crohn disease.  

Intussessption and hypertrophic pyloric stenosis. Hyperperistalsis and hypoperistalsis, Paralytic ileus. GIT Neoplasms and Lymphoma

Module 7 - Kidney and Urinary Tract: Part- 1

• Kidney and Urinary Tract: Normal anatomy and sizes, Echotexture assessment, Corticomedullary differentiation.
• Congenital anomalies: Ectopia, crossed renal ectopia, horseshoe kidney, Duplex collecting system and ureterocele.
• Calcification : Renal calculi, ureteral calculi, Bladdder calculi. Nephrocalcinosis, Medullary nephrocalcinosis.
• Hydronephrosis: PUJ Obs, congenital megacalyces, congenital megaureter and more..  
• Renal cortical cysts and medullary cysts: Medullary sponge kidney, Polycystic kidney disease, Medical Renal Disease, AKI(Acute kidney injury), CKD (Chronic kidney disease )
• Pyelonephritis, Pyonephrosis, Renal Papillary necrosis, Renal and Perinephric abscess, cystitis, pseudopolyp appearance in urinary bladder 

Module 8 - Kidney and Urinary Tract: Part -2

• Genitourinary tumors: Angiomyolipoma, Renal cell carcinoma and other tumors, Transitional cell carcinoma, Lymphoma and metastasis. Adrenal lesions. Renal trauma.  
• Urinary bladder diverticula and masses, Prostate, TRUS, Elastography. Special considerations for paediatric urinary tract  
• Renal Arterial Doppler and evaluation of  Post Renal Transplant recipient.  

Module 9 – Uterus

• TA and TVS (TVS is needed for optimal assessment), Sono HSG Scanning Techniques and normal uterus appearances at various ages. Congenital anomalies, Role of 3D  
• Uterine enlargement:  fibroids and adenomyosis, leiomyosarcomas, ACUM, Intrauterine devices assessment.  
• Normal endometrium appearances and endometrium pathologies. RPOC and AVM. Pelvic congestion syndrome.
• Evaluation of uterine cervix.  

Module 10 - Adnexa : Ovaries and fallopian tubes

• Techniques of assessment and normal ultrasound appearances at various age and with the phases of menstrual cycle. Follicular monitoring and assessment. Functional ovarian cysts, PCOD  
• Benign ovarian lesions: Ovarian Endometriotic cysts, Ovarian Dermoid. Ovarian Torsion  
• Ovarian Neoplasms: IOTA and ORADS. Metastatic tumors.
• Fallopian tube abnormalities: Pelvic inflammatory disease. Tubal Ectopic gestation   

Module 11 - Anterior Abdominal Wall Ultrasound Evaluation: and Anterior Abdominal Wall Hernias

• Diverification of Rectii , Inguinal canal sono anatomy and Inguinal Hernias. Indirect Inguinal Hernias,Direct Inguinal Hernias, Femoral Hernias, Spigelian Hernias, Sports Hernias
• Complications of hernia. Evaluation in post surgical patient: Linea Alba Hernias, Umbilical Hernias, Paraumbilical or Periumbilical Hernias, Incisional Hernias, Multiple Hernias, Recurrent Groin Hernias, Hernia mimics
• Lumps  and Bumps: Miscellaneous lumps, lipoma, scar endometriosis  

Module 12 : Ultrasound Scrotum

• Sonographic technique, Normal anatomy
• Benign Intratesticular Lesions, Cysts,  Tubular Ectasia of Rete Testis, Cystic Dysplasia, Epidermoid Cysts, Abscess, Torsion, Segmental Infarction, Calcifications  
• Extratesticular pathologic Lesions: Tunica Vaginalis Hydrocele, Hematocele, and Pyocele, Paratesticular Masses, Varicocele
• Epididymal Lesions, Acute and Chronic Epididymitis, Sarcoidosis
• Fournier Gangrene, Trauma,   Cryptorchidism  
• Malignant Tumors : Germ Cell Tumors, Non–Germ Cell Tumors, Testicular Metastases
• Lymphoma and Leukemia, Extramedullary Myeloma