Ultraschall Med 2005; 26 - OP125
DOI: 10.1055/s-2005-917405

AN EFFICIENT WAY TO REACH THE CORRECT DIAGNOSIS ON PROSTATE LESIONS WITH TRANSRECTAL ULTRASOUND: DVD-ROM BASED TEACHING FILE WITH ULTRASOUND IMAGES, REAL-TIME VIDEO DISPLAY AND COMPARATIVE DATA

PS Zoumpoulis 1, D Alexopoulos 1, S Kyriazi 1, A Plagou 1, D Dalakostas 1, K Pahos 1, A Filippidou 1
  • 1Echonet the Ultrasound Network, Hellenic Society for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, Athens, Greece

Purpose:

  • To teach a trainee to describe the US characteristics of Focal Prostate Lesions.

  • To aid and guide the user in reaching a sonographic diagnosis through correct algorithms

  • To compare US images of diagnostic difficulty to those of the database.

Methods and Materials: The User can start using this teaching file by submitting the US characteristics of a Focal Prostate Lesion, which he has difficulty in diagnosing. He is asked to describe the echogenicity, anatomical position, border shape, acoustic impedance and the vascularity of the lesion. The system guides him through a specific algorithm to all possible diseases that coincide with criteria given. A large collection of classified US Image Galleries and Video Galleries are available in each diagnostic category giving the User the capability of comparing his own image(s) to those of the database. The user's image can also be linked to the contents of corresponding Interesting Cases, which are brief case reports with clinical, biochemical, imaging and pathological data.

Results: To suggest diagnostic algorithms in order to characterize focal Prostate lesions seen by TRUS, starting from an US image and its main morphologic and haemodynamic features.

Conclusions: Assistance in deriving a diagnosis of a prostate lesion by Viewing or Comparing images of diagnostic difficulty to histologically proven sonographic images of the database.