PG1 - Basics in chest imaging: pulmonary vasculature

Postgraduate Course
Chairs: M. Pistolesi (Florence, Italy), G. Ferretti (Grenoble, France)
Aims: This is the third course in a three-year postgraduate core curriculum covering the main issues on the basics in imaging. The aim of this third module in the series is to review the radiological features of abnormalities of the pulmonary vasculature in a format relevant to the pulmonary physician. All currently available techniques for imaging the vessels will be reviewed. Diagnostic algorithms for the work-up of pathologies will be proposed.

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