Announcement - Modern Breast Ultrasound and other Diagnostic Procedures - Update

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February 24-25 2006, Technopark Zürich, Switzerland

We invite you to attend the "Modern Breast Ultrasound and other Diagnostic Procedures - Update" to be held from 24 to 25, February 2006 at the Technopark in Zürich, Switzerland. The Update programme consisting of didactic presentations and interactive "Hands-on" workshop sessions has been organised as part of a continuing medical education programme series by the International Breast Ultrasound School (IBUS) and the Swiss Society for Senology.

The experience and contributions from the multidisciplinary team of the international experts and Swiss faculty will ensure a high quality teaching programme.

Programme Content

• New German S3 guidelines for ultrasound

• Standards and guidelines for x-ray mammography

• MRI and MRI-guided procedures: Standards and guidelines

• Breast screening for early breast cancer

• General standards and guidelines for ultrasound

• Breast ultrasound and ultrasound biopsy techniques

• Achieving a correct diagnosis

• Breast Centers - the benefits for patients

• Imaging follow up of the postoperative breast

• X-ray mammography BI-RADS (adapted)

• Ultrasound BI-RADS (adapted)

• MRI BI-RADS (adapted)

• Importance of double reading

• Incorporating new technologies into practice (Digital, CAD, MRI)

• Interventional procedures: cytology; core biopsy

• Interventional procedures: tissue sampling of breast lesions and lymph nodes

• Controversies in histology from percutaneous biopsy

• Underestimation of breast pathology with needle biopsy sampling

• Multifocality, multicentricity, staging and planning for surgery

• Case studies, BI-RADS ranking

• Demonstration sessions

• Interactive "hands-on" workshops

Information/Registration

Update Secretariat, Brust-Zentrum, Seefeldstr. 214, CH 8008 Zürich, Switzerland,

Tel.: [phone],

eMail: [e-mail]

www.senology.ch or www.ibus.org

Registration fee:

SFr. 550 (before December 31)

SFr. 650.- (after December 31)

Prof. A. Mundinger, President - IBUS

Prof. R. Otto, Secretary - IBUS

Dr. Ch. Rageth, Swiss Society for Senology