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Virtual Colonoscopy: Ready for Prime Time?
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Colorectal carcinoma is the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the U.S., with well over 100,000 new cases diagnosed each year. Physicians are challenged to provide screening modalities that are not only safe, effective, and cost-efficient, but also acceptable to the patient. After all, the “best” screening test is the one people are willing to have – any method being of little value if many patients avoid it.
These facts have advanced virtual colonoscopy to the colorectal cancer screening spotlight. Already an attractive alternative screening tool for patients who have failed traditional endoscopic screening, or for patients who have refused traditional screening techniques, VC offers significant promise in a day-to-day clinical role.
This video program takes you through an analysis of VC’s current role, its advantages over other screening methods and its limitations, and discusses the development of practice standards to help determine how to best use VC results.
You’ll hear all these topics covered:
- Perspectives of VC: the patient, the clinician, the radiologist
- Comparison of current screening methods
- VC advantages to the patient
- Usefulness of VC in colorectal cancer staging
- VC’s “value add” regarding extracolonic findings
- VC colon prep techniques
- Electronic cleansing goals and procedures
- Methods of colonic insufflation
- VC scanning protocols
- Thin slice advantages and disadvantages
- Preserving the accuracy of VC with lower doses of radiation
- Considerations in the selection of a VC workstation
- Use of 2D views for problem-solving
- 3D reviews and reporting
- Available VC viewing formats
- Characterization and measurement of polyps using VC
- Potential causes of VC false positives
- Interpreting mobile polyps through the use of supine and prone views
- Possible causes of VC false negatives
- The future of computer-aided diagnosis, and more
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