Refresher Course: Head and Neck

RC 108 - Sinonasal imaging

1

05:00Soraya Robinson, Wien / AT

2

15:00Philip Touska, London / UK

3

15:00Jussi Hirvonen, Turku / FI

4

15:00Davide Farina, Brescia / IT

5

10:00Panel discussion: How to optimise CT and MRI protocols for imaging of the paranasal sinuses

5 min

Chairperson's introduction

Soraya Robinson, Wien / Austria

15 min

Surgically relevant anatomy and variants not to miss

Philip Touska, London / United Kingdom

To familiarise with the normal cross-sectional anatomy of the sinonasal area.
To highlight the most surgically relevant anatomical landmarks in sinonasal imaging.
To be able to alert the surgeon about critical anatomical variants that may impact surgical approach.

15 min

Patterns of sinonasal dx on CT and when to perform MRI?

Jussi Hirvonen, Turku / Finland

To understand the characteristic imaging patterns of sinonasal diseases on computed tomography.
To suggest evidence-based differential diagnoses of sinonasal diseases based on these radiological features.
To develop a rational strategy to employ MRI in different clinical and imaging scenarios.

15 min

Staging sinonasal malignancy and surgically relevant tumour mapping

Davide Farina, Brescia / Italy

To become familiar with the main themes of sinonasal primary tumour T staging.
To identify the most important presurgical patterns of sinonasal disease spread and how to optimise their assessment on imaging.
To understand imaging features that contraindicate pure endoscopic approaches.

10 min

Panel discussion: How to optimise CT and MRI protocols for imaging of the paranasal sinuses