Mammography Screening and Diagnostic: Nuts and Bolts

Tuesday, May 17, 2022

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM EDT

Location: Room 203-205

Speaker(s)

Edward A. Sickles, MD, FACR, FSBI

Professor Emeritus of Radiology
University of California, San Francisco
University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine and Medical Center
San Francisco, California

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Avice M. O'Connell, MD, FSBI

Professor of Imaging Sciences. Director of Breast Imaging
University of Rochester
University of Rochester
rochester, New York

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Screening mammography topics will include how to set up an effective and efficient image display protocol, interpretive aids to improve the perception of subtle findings, how to reduce satisfaction of search and observer fatigue errors during batch interpretation, how to identify summation artifacts on examinations limited to 2D MLO and CC views, and how to use CAD. Diagnostic mammography topics will include the several indications for examination (with reference to ACR appropriateness criteria), how to conduct examinations based on their indications, the strengths and limitations of 2D versus tomosynthesis for diagnostic examinations with different indications, the use of skin markers, and under what circumstances to add ultrasonography to the diagnostic mammography examination.

Learning Objectives:

better set up workstations to interpret screening mammography examinations more effectively and more efficiently.
improve their approach to interpreting screening mammography examinations.
better set up workstations to interpret diagnostic mammography examinations and to improve their approach to interpreting diagnostic mammography examinations.