Core Curriculum: IMAGING ANATOMY FOR THE SPINE INTERVENTIONALIST

Take your interventional skills to the next level with the diagnostic confidence you’ll develop from viewing the core lectures from the Imaging Anatomy for the Spine Interventionalist course. Earn CME credit at your convenience, without any time away from your practice, viewing streamed lectures and a Q&A. Over the years IPSIS has refined the curriculum for this special course, designed to help you gain a greater perspective of anatomy by combining cross-sectional (MRI and CT) and projectional (fluoroscopy) techniques—helping you perform spine interventions with greater precision and safety.

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Imaging Techniques

    Cross-Sectional Imaging and Fluoroscopic Correlation
    Contrast Media - Safety and Utility

Lumbar Spine

    Enumeration, Anatomy Basics, and Innervation
    Disc Herniations: Disc Anatomy and Nomenclature
    Foraminal Stenosis: Disc, Endplate and SAP Hypertrophy, and Degenerative Spondylolisthesis
    Spondylolysis, Space of Okada, Posterior Ligamentous Complex Inflammatory Syndrome
    Synovial Cysts
    Axial Pain: The Disc and Posterior Elements
    Neurogenic Intermittent Claudication
    Planning Lumbar TFESI Based on Imaging Anatomy

Pelvis

    Sacroiliac Joint Anatomy, Function, and Normal Imaging
    Lumbar Contrast Patterns
    Spondyloarthropathies

Cervical Spine

    Cranio-Cervical Junction and Cervicogenic Headache
    Unique Subaxial Anatomy and Innervation
    Vascular Anatomy of the Cervical Spine
    Cervical Radicular Pain: Disc Herniations and Foraminal Stenosis

Holospine and Paraspinal Nerves

    When Not to Inject: When Imaging Warns You of Excess Risk

Speakers

John A. Carrino, MD, MPH
Vice Chairman, Department of Radiology and Imaging, Hospital for Special Surgery
Professor of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University
New York, New York

Felix E. Diehn, MD
Associate Professor of Radiology, Mayo Clinic School of Medicine
Rochester, Minnesota
Greta B. Liebo, MD
Consultant and Assistant Professor in Radiology at Mayo Clinic School of Medicine
Rochester, Minnesota

Timothy Maus, MD
Professor Emeritus of Radiology, Mayo Clinic School of Medicine
Past President, Spine Intervention Society
Kihei, Hawai

Vinil Shah, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Radiology, University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California

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Educational Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

• Systematically evaluate a spine imaging study and describe normal anatomy;
• Identify the specificity and sensitivity shortcomings of radiographs, CT and MRI;
• Assess normal variants that may simulate symptomatic spine disease;
• Recognize neural compressive lesions within a large spine imaging data set;
• Interpret patient radiographic findings to develop a differential diagnosis in correlation with history, physical examination, and the patient’s spine pathology;
• Explain challenges to safe injections and how to avoid pitfalls through analysis of spine imaging;
• Utilize imaging in planning transforaminal access to maximize safety and efficacy.

Disclosure Information
None of the planners or speakers had relevant financial relationships with ACCME-defined ineligible companies.

References
References are provided within the speakers presentations.

Accreditation Statement 
The International Pain & Spine Intervention Society (IPSIS) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Credit Designation Statement
IPSIS designates this enduring material for a maximum of 7.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Commercial Support
No commercial support was received for this activity.

Date of Activity Release: 01/08/2021
Date of Activity Expiration: 01/07/2024