BSR 2020 Annual Meeting: Program

Abstract

Different times call for different measures. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced us to search for alternative methods to provide an annual meeting which is equally interesting and has quality. For the Belgian Society of Radiology (BSR) 2020 Annual Meeting, the sections on Abdominal Imaging, Thoracic Imaging and the Young Radiologist Section (YRS) joined forces to organize a meeting which is quite different from the ones we have organised in the past. We have chosen to create a compact - approximately 5 hour - and entirely virtual meeting with the possibility of live interaction with the speakers during the question and answer sessions. The meeting kicks off with a message from the BSR president about radiology in 2020, followed by three abdominal talks. The second session combines an abdominal talk with COVID-related talks. We have chosen to include not only thoracic findings in COVID-19, but to take it further and discuss neurological patterns, long-term clinical findings and the progress in artificial intelligence in COVID-19. Lastly, the annual meeting closes off with a short movie about the (re)discovery of Röntgens X-ray, presented to us by the Belgian Museum for Radiology, Military Hospital, Brussels.

Keywords: 2020; Annual Symposium; BSR.

Figure 1

Patient with a tumor at the left posterolateral side of the distal rectum (see arrows on the images in the top row). After radiochemotherapy, the original site of the tumor has become very hypo-intense on the T2-weighted images with no restricted diffusion (see arrows on the ilages in the middle row), reflecting a complete response. This was confirmed by endoscopy, which showed a white scar (see arrow on the right bottom image).

Figure 1

A 43-year-old woman showed on covid-scan multiple areas of ground-glass opacities in both lungs (a). A control CT scan after 18 weeks could not show any abnormalities anymore (b).

Figure 2

A 73-year-old man showed on covid-scan multiple areas of ground-glass opacities in both lungs but also a more reticular pattern with thickening of intralobular lines and irregular lines and bands (a). A control CT scan after 20 weeks showed the persistence of irregular lines and discrete signs of interstitial fibrosis (b).

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A 62-year-old woman showed on covid-scan multiple areas of peripheral ground-glass opacities in both lungs but also a more reticular pattern with interstitial thickening and irregular lines and bands (a). A control CT scan after 20 weeks showed the persistence of irregular lines and signs of interstitial fibrosis (b). A late control CT after 6 months showed the persistence of signs of interstitial fibrosis (c).