| WEEKDAY EDUCATIONAL COURSE | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Clinical Intensive Education Option | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Spine & Spinal Cord Imaging | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ORGANIZERS: Pia C. Maly Sundgren, M.D., Ph.D. & Jeffrey Joseph Neil, M.D., Ph.D. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| SKILL LEVEL: Intermediate | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Monday, 9 May 2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| OVERVIEW | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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This two-hour
course is a part of the Clinical Intensive Neuro Course, and is also
open to all registrants. It will focus on basic clinical spine and
spinal cord imaging. The speakers, physicians who are experts in the
field of spine imaging, will cover: « Trauma to the spine and spinal cord; « Imaging of the postoperative spine; « Imaging of common spine and spinal cord tumors; and « Demyelinating and acute transverse myelitis of the spinal cord. |
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| EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Upon completion of this course participants should be able to: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Image postoperative spine; « Describe imaging specifics of common spinal and spine cord tumors; « Describe MRI implications for different injuries of the spine and spinal cord in children and adults; and « Compare different demyelinating diseases and myelitis of the spinal cord, and the typical MRI imaging findings for each. |
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