Atualiza24 | Chest - Basic Patterns in High Resolution Tomography: Case-Based Review

Learning objectives: At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

1) recognize the normal anatomy of the lung lobe;

2) correctly identify the main patterns of lesions on chest CT scans;

3) Draw up differential diagnoses in order of probability for each pattern, correlating imaging patterns with clinical data.  

Course syllabus: The normal anatomy of the pulmonary lobe will be reviewed, with a view to later correlating these elements with the patterns of abnormality. The classes will be divided into the main patterns of lung abnormality (increased attenuation, decreased attenuation, reticular pattern and nodular pattern), detailing the fundamental lesions and their differential diagnoses in each of these patterns. The patterns of abnormality will be interpreted within clinical cases, encouraging the participant to correlate the tomographic findings with the available clinical findings, with the development of differential diagnoses in order of priority.