Image-based guidelines and recommendations in respiratory diseases
Symposium Chairs: J. van Meerbeeck (Edegem (Antwerp), Belgium), R. Huber (Munich, Germany)
Aims: To describe how to use guidelines and recommendations in the management of screen-based and incidentally identified nodules and how to use revised guidelines to evaluate the results of high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) in the diagnosis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and its place in the clinical work-up of patients with this disease; and to describe the use of appropriate imaging modalities in the staging of lung cancer and in the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism and pulmonary hypertension.