by Dr Evelyn Ho

The faculty of speakers were Professor Byung Ihn Choi from the Department of Radiology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Korea; Assistant Professor Whal Lee from the same department as Professor Choi, Professor Kil-Ho Cho, from the Yeungnam University Medical Centre, Daegu, Korea and Associate Professor John George from the Department of Biomedical Imaging, University Malaya Medical Centre, Malaysia. Professor Choi also holds many other posts, which include Vice President of the World Federation of Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, President of the Korean Society of Ultrasound in Medicine, President of the Korean Radiological Society, President of the Asian Federation of Societies for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology and has also published extensively.

Topics covered were hepatobiliary, vascular and musculoskeletal sonography correlated with relevant modalities of imaging such as Computed Tomography, Magnetic Resonance Imaging and plain radiographs.

Professor Choi took the audience through benign and malignant liver tumours, 3-Dimensional ultrasound of hepatobiliary diseases and contrast enhanced ultrasound of liver tumours.

Whal Lee gave an overview of Doppler evaluation of varicose veins, including what pitfalls and techniques were needed to properly assess varicose veins and incompetent perforators, as well as the cause of the varicosities as these were important for the appropriate treatment to be instituted. Correlation with CT angiography of the lower limb veins was a complementary examination and could precede the Doppler examination.
 

The attentive audience

Professor Cho revised normal and pathological sonographic appearances of the rotator cuff of the shoulder joint and went into exquisite details in sonographic appearance of the hand and wrist in normal and pathologic conditions!

John George gave practical tips on imaging of the knee even in centres where high end ultrasound equipment may not be prevalent. The ultrasound of the normal and abnormal knee, as well as tendons and muscles was covered in two lectures.

The Sunday ended with the live demonstrations of vascular, abdominal and musculoskeletal ultrasound by the experts. It was indeed a Sunday well spent.