PRE-CONGRESS COURSES

DIAGNOSTIC THYROID AND PARATHYROID ULTRASONOGRAPHY COURSE
Saturday 11 September 2010 • 8 :15 am - 1:15 pm

INTRODUCTION 8:15 am - 8:30 am
Laurence Leenhardt (Paris, France)

NORMAL THYROID GLAND AND THYROID NODULES - 8:30 am - 10:30 am
Chairpersons : Murat Faik Erdogan (Ankara, Turkey), Laurence Leenhardt (Paris, France)

8:30 am Neck anatomy, basics of ultrasonography, how to perform neck ultrasonography ?
Jean Tramalloni (Paris, France)
9:00 am Ultrasonography in thyroid nodule, sonographic risk assessment of thyroid nodules
Suzan Mandel (Philadelphia, USA)
9:30 am Doppler sonography and elastography in nodular disease
Paolo Vitti (Pisa, Italy)
10:00 am Fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) and ultrasonography guidance
Eun Kyung Kim (Seoul, Korea)

Coffee break - 10:30 am - 10:50 am

THYROIDITIS, PARATHYROID GLANDS, FOLLOW UP OF THYROID CANCER 10:50 am - 12:00 am
Chairpersons : Paolo Vitti (Pisa, Italy), Jean Tramalloni (Paris, France)

10:50 am Gray scale and Doppler sonography in auto immune thyroiditis
Hervé Monpeyssen (Paris, France)
11:10 am Parathyroid glands Murat
Faik Erdogan (Ankara, Turkey)
11:40 am Ultrasonography in the follow up of thyroid cancer, neck lymph nodes
Laurence Leenhardt (Paris, France)

CASE ILLUSTRATIONS, PITFALLS 12:00 am - 1:00 pm
Questions and answers (using the Voting-Pad system) with real time projection of the ultrasound examination on 3 volunteers. Chairpersons : Suzan Mandel (Phildelphia, USA), Theresa Rago (Pisa, Italy), Hervé Monpeyssen (Paris, France)

  Case 1 : patient with normal thyroid gland
Speaker/operator: MF. Erdogan (Ankara, Turkey)/G. Russ (Paris, France)
  Case 2 : patient with a thyroid nodule
Speaker/operator: EK. Kim (Seoul, Korea)/J. Tramalloni (Paris, France)
  Case 3 : patient with a Graves’ disease
Speaker/operator: P. Vitti (Pisa, Italy)/H. Monpeyssen (Paris, France)

CONCLUSION 1:00 pm - 1:15 pm
Jean Tramalloni (Paris, France), Hervé Monpeyssen (Paris, France)

Lunch boxes will be provided at the end of the course
Workshop Registration fee : 120 €
Limited number of seats. Please book in advance when registering to the congress




10th MEETING OF ETA-CRN (ETA Cancer Research Network)
Saturday 11 September 2010 • 8 :15 am - 1:15 pm

Irradiation and carcinomas: lessons of Chernobyl for thyroid, implications for the diagnosis and prevention of thyroid papillary carcinoma
Chairman: Ulla Feldt-Rasmussen (Copenhagen, Denmark)

  Introduction: Maurice Tubiana tribute to Professor J. Nauman
8:15 am Chernobyl Cancers
Michael Tuttle (New York, USA)
8:45 am Gene expression in Chernobyl cancers
C. Maenhaut (Brussels, Belgium), B. Jarzab (Gliwice, Poland)
9:15 am Is there a gene expression signature specific of irradiation induced thyroid carcinoma?
V. Detours (Brussels, Belgium), D. Handkiewicz-Junak (Gliwice, Poland)
9:45 am Gene expression in X ray induced thyroid carcinomas
S. Chevillard (Saclay, France)

Coffee break : 10:15 am – 10:45 am

10:45 am Epidemiology of cancer and low dose radiation
E. Cardis (Lyon, France)
11:15 am Gene copy number (CGH) in Chernobyl cancers
H. Zitzelsberger, (Munich, Germany)
11:45 am Genomics of Chernobyl related thyroid cancer
K. Unger, G. Thomas (London, UK)
12:15 am Models of radiation induced thyroid cancers
M. Atkinson (Munich, Germany), M. Santoro (Napoli, Italy)
12:45 am General discussion

For further information, please contact the secretary of ETA-CRN:
Professor Barbara Jarzab - bjarzab@io.gliwice.pl

ETA-CRN Meeting Registration fee : 120 €
Limited number of seats. Please book in advance
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