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.

Incidental or screen based findings of pulmonary nodules: what to do? A. Dubbeldam (Nieuwrode, Belgium)
Revised diagnostic criteria for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis A. Wells (London, United Kingdom)
Logical use of imaging modalities in lung cancer staging W. De Wever (Leuven, Belgium)
Image-based recommendations for the evaluation of pulmonary embolism and arterial hypertension: what? when? how? M. Remy-Jardin (Lille, France)