Paranasal Sinuses - CT Anatomy and normal variants

Description

This workshop on paranasal sinuses will focus on detailed CT anatomy and important paranasal sinus landmarks. You will learn how to prospectively identify important normal variants that predispose patients for surgical complications and how to easily navigate through the complex structures of a PNS CT.

A unique combination of weekly online lectures, hands-on reporting of more than 50 selected real CT PNS cases accompanied by focused self-study and mentor feed-back will help you to improve your CT anatomical knowledge.

This interactive course will give you direct feedback on all your reported cases including case-statistics and annotated image solutions. During the weekly online meeting with the mentor further case discussion takes place and you will be able to ask questions and focus on your learning needs.

At the end of our 4-week online fellow ship you will feel more confident doing your routine presurgical CT PNS cases.

The maximum number of participants on the Online Mini Fellowship will be 20 fellows.

***Effort: 9-10 hour per week

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WEEK 1
- 29/05/2019 9am CET // Kick off session (20-30 min)
- 29/05/2019 - 03/06/2019 // CT Anatomy and normal variants of PNS - Reporting on selected cases (6-7 hour learning time)
- 05/06/2019 9am CET // Live webinar. "Normal CT Anatomy of the Paranasal Sinuses and Nasal cavity" lecture + Case discussion (90-120 min webinar)

WEEK 2
- 05/06/2019 - 10/06/2019 // CT Anatomy and normal variants of PNS - Reporting on selected cases (6-7 hour learning time)
- 12/06/2019 9am CET // Live webinar. "Anatomy of the Ostiomeatal Complex" lecture + Case discussion (90-120 min webinar)

WEEK3
- 12/06/2019 - 17/06/2019 // CT Anatomy and normal variants of PNS - Reporting on selected cases (6-7 hour learning time)
- 19/06/2019 9am CET // "Normal variants relevant for surgical planning – part I" lecture + Case discussion (90-120 min webinar)

WEEK 4
- 19/06/2019 - 24/06/2019 // CT Anatomy and normal variants of PNS - Reporting on selected cases (6-7 hour learning time)
- 30/09/2019 9am CET // "Normal variants relevant for surgical planning – part II " Lecture + Case discussion + wrap up (120 min webinar)

The reading of the the cases is self managed with no mentoring support. The trainees will be doing all the reporting on the online modules which will only be made available to start reporting on the reporting start date.

All the webinars and interactive sessions will be held at 9am CET.

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Learning objectives

• Review of paranasal sinuses normal anatomy
• Identify and describe normal variants of the paranasal sinuses relevant for surgery
• Identify and describe the ostiomeatal complex and its variants

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Level

Level II - General radiologist
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Technical requirements

The training platform runs entirely in the browser but the online PACS places a considerable load on the hardware and internet connection when viewing and loading cases.

• * Tested with Safari on iPad 9.7 (2017), should also work on Android with Chrome. User interface not optimized for smaller screens. Large cases (more than 600 images) are not able to be opened on tablet or mobile devices due to memory constraints.
• ** Firefox, Edge and Safari also work but might not provide an equally smooth experience. Internet Explorer is not supported.