Challenge yourself with our Rectal MRI Case Review from Dr. Zahra Kassam!

Join Dr. Zahra Kassam (Western University) as she reviews a series of high-yield Rectal MRI cases and the imaging features she looks for to make her diagnosis. Read alongside her as she provides essential interpretation pearls and pitfalls on these cases, which will help you gain confidence in making these decisions in your own practice.

Listen to her advice on the most helpful MR imaging sequences to use & when to use them, and her process to narrow down a diagnosis by ruling out differentials and examining all of the organs in the sequences. 

In addition, she seamlessly weaves in a review of the anatomy and spaces within this area and showcases the importance of MR staging for surgical planning. Dr. Kassam also includes tips on go-to protocols for Rectal MRs that aid in staging tumors and shares optimal criteria to use for staging and reporting when reviewing abnormal nodes.

Each case includes helpful breakdowns of MR findings, key teaching points, and some best practices for imaging rationale, indications, optimal imaging protocols, and reporting. 

Test yourself to determine:

• What an axial oblique sequence should be based on?  
• The T stage and N stage in cases of abnormal nodes?
• What plane is the most useful for determination of T-stage in a lower rectal cancer case?
• What structures might be involved in the tumor area? 
• …and more!

Case Review Overview

Expert Case Reviews offer a high yield, case-focused learning module that will help you gain confidence interpreting advanced imaging cases. 

Read alongside Radiology mentors who want to help you fine-tune your search patterns and work through your list of differential diagnoses. 

How to navigate each Case topic:

• Test Yourself – Before starting the video, launch the DICOM study and complete your independent review of the case in our diagnostic web viewer.
• Read alongside Dr. Kassam – Keep the DICOM study open while you watch Dr. Kassam review the case. We suggest popping the DICOM viewer open in a new window and viewing side by side with the video on your screen. 
• Review at your own pace – Utilize the video player features to pause, rewind, and slow down the video to work through the case at your own pace.

After you’re done, check out these additional Gastrointestinal/Abdomen Mastery Courses for further in-depth case review:

• Rectal Cancer
• Defecography
• Perianal Fistula

Course materials were developed from Dr. Kassam’s Case Review Live webinar in April 2021. The recorded session has been converted into this on-demand, microlearning Radiology CME Course that you can work through on your own time!