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Regional Training Course on Management of Thyroid and Parathyroid Diseases
MONDAY
Welcome and presentation of participants - Ourania Demetriadou, Savvas Frangos, Rodolfo Nuñez
Presentation of the Training Course - Ourania Demetriadou, Savvas Frangos, Rodolfo Nuñez
Nuclear Medicine and Thyroid: A historical perspective - Savvas Frangos
Role of imaging modalities in the diagnosis of thyroid and parathyroid diseases
Understanding Thyroid Anatomy and Function - Ourania Demetriadou
X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) / Magnetic Resonance Imaging - Aristi Kourri
Thyroid and Parathyroid Scintigraphy - Rodolfo Nuñez
PET/CT - Marcel Stokkel
Ultrasound of Thyroid and Parathyroid glands - Chrysa Tzakouri
Understanding Ultrasound images / how to do - Chrysa Tzakouri, Ourania Demetriadou
TUESDAY
Thyroid and Parathyroid dysfunction
Laboratory tests methods and interpretation - Stephanos Pavlidis
Mild Thyroid failure / Clinical implications - Marinella Kyriakidou Himonas
Auto-immune Thyroiditis / Nodular thyroid gland - Michalis Picolos
Hyperthyroidism - Diagnosis and Treatment (Endocrinologist) - George Zavros
Iodine-131 Thyrotoxicosis Therapy /Dosimetry? - Marcel Stokkel
FNA-interpretation criteria - Katerina Kyriakou
IAEA Activities in Nuclear Medicine and Diagnostic Imaging - Rodolfo Nuñez
Primary Hyperparathyroidism: A Journey Overtime - Camilo Jimenez
Thyroid Ultrasound and Lymph nodes mapping - Panayiotis Economides
Thyroid and parathyroid Surgery – An overview - Vasilis Constantinidis
Histopathology report - Pavlos Constantinou
WEDNESDAY
Thyroid Cancer-Problems and Issues in the management of differentiated thyroid cancer
Thyroid cancer: An overview - Camilo Jimenez
Management of 131-I therapy in thyroid cancer patients on dialysis - Javier Arbizu
Ablation therapy and Follow-up of differentiated thyroid cancer patients - Marcel Stokkel
rTSH vs Thyroxin withdrawal - Javier Arbizu
I-131 Whole Body Scan. SPECT/CT - Javier Arbizu
Side effects of Iodine-131 therapy Can we avoid them? Treatment - Marcel Stokkel
Therapy of local recurrence and distant metastases - Marcel Stokkel
Dosimetry-Radiation Safety and Regulatory aspects - Demetris Kaoli
THURSDAY
Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma: From RET to Thyrosine Kinase Inhibitors - Camilo Jimenez
MEN syndrome Geneticist view - Christos Shammas
Multiple Endocrine neoplasia type 2: Genotype-Phonotype correlations - Camilo Jimenez
Management of Thyroid cancer in children - Javier Arbizu
Non-Iodine avid Thyroid Cancer: Challenges and Oportunities - Camilo Jimenez
Kinase Inhibitors Therapy - Haris Charalambous
External Beam Radiation - Demetris Vomvas
Round table-problems and issues in the management of thyroid and parathyroid diseases - All participants
Cases Report from participants - All participants
FRIDAY
Suggested Cost-Effective algorithm for management of thyroid nodules - Ourania Demetriadou
European Consensus for the management of patients with differentiated thyroid cancer - Javier Arbizu
Closing remarks - Ourania Demetriadou, Savvas Frangos, Rodolfo Nuñez