Find out more about the Gynecological Imaging Certificate Course topics and speakers and supplement your learning with ISUOG guidelines, VISUOG articles and ISUOG lectures.
Meet the faculty
A/Prof. Simon Meagher explains what's on offer in the course
Prof. Lil Valentin introduces the topic of ovarian tumor algorithms
Dr Shabnam Bobdiwala tells us more about the topic: Pregnancy of unknown location (PUL)
Dr Luciana Chamié introduces the gynecological imaging session she will co-chair
Program - Gynecological Imaging Certificate Course
17 April, 2021
Supplement your learning - The endometrium
Supplement your learning with the following learning resource, including exlusively-released video content from ISUOG courses and Congresses, UOG articles and ISUOG guidelines.
Video lectures
Live scan: Planning endometriosis surgery using transrectal ultrasound (George Condous, AUS)
Watch this exclusively released lecture, delivered at ISUOG's 30th Virtual World Congress. Other resources available below.
Consensus statement: a systematic approach to women with underlying endometriosis
This lecture was delivered at ISUOG's 27th World Congress on Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology in Vienna, in 2017.
Endometriosis from the pathologist's point of view
A thorough description and interpretation of the pathological diagnosis of endometriosis and any other findings that could be related to carcinoma
Is a thick endometrium in postmenopausal women abnormal: should you take a biopsy?
This lecture was delivered at ISUOG's World Congress in Singapore, in 2018.
Fibroids, polyps and congenital abnormalities found on a baseline fertility scan: what should you advise your patients about treatment
This lecture was delivered at ISUOG's World Congress in Singapore, in 2018.
If you see endometriosis should you leave it? The natural history of endometriosis in pregnant and non-pregnant women
This lecture was delivered at ISUOG's World Congress in Singapore, in 2018.
VISUOG articles and Patient information
Endometriomas
Endometriosis is a benign estrogen dependent disease that is defined by the presence of endometrial glandular tissue outside of the uterus. It is most often localised in the ovary giving rise to a clear demarcated ovarian cyst, containing altered blood: the endometrioma.
Endometrial Polyps
Endometrial polyps are well-circumscribed protrusions arising from the endometrial basalis layer in the uterine cavity and are either pedunculated or sessile. They may cause abnormal uterine bleeding, pain and subfertility.
Endometrial Hyperplasia
Endometrial hyperplasia is a pre-cancerous, non-physiological, non-invasive proliferation of the endometrium. Endometrial hyperplasia develops in a background of chronic stimulation of the endometrium by estrogens unopposed by a progestin.
Endometrial Cancer
Endometrial cancer is the most common malignancy of the female genital tract, affecting 2-3% of women during their lifetime. The median age at diagnosis is 60-65 years and the most commonly associated risk-factor is obesity.
Endometriosis
This leaflet is to help you understand what Endometriosis is, how does it happen, what tests you need and what are the long term implications of the diagnosis?
UOG articles
- Typical ultrasound features of various endometrial pathologies described using International Endometrial Tumor Analysis (IETA) terminology in women with abnormal uterine bleeding UOG: Volume 57, Issue 1 Date: June 2020.
- Systematic approach to sonographic evaluation of the pelvis in women with suspected endometriosis, including terms, definitions and measurements: a consensus opinion from the International Deep Endometriosis Analysis (IDEA) group UOG: Volume 48, Issue 3, Date: June 2016
- Closing the communication loop between gynecological surgeons, diagnostic imaging experts and pathologists in endometriosis: building bridges between specialties UOG Accepted Article: January 2021.
- Two‐dimensional transvaginal sonography vs saline contrast sonohysterography for diagnosing endometrial polyps: systematic review and meta‐analysis UOG: Volume 56, Issue 4, Date: July 2020.
- How thick is too thick? When endometrial thickness should prompt biopsy in postmenopausal women without vaginal bleeding UOG: Volume 24, Issue 5, Date: September 2004.
ISUOG members can use the ISUOG Academy learnign management system to earn CME points while they study. Visit ISUOG Academy and search the following activities to learn more about the endometrium while earning 1 point per hour of study.
- CME Activity: Thickened Endometrium in Asymptomatic Postmenopausal Women. What’s the Best Management
- CME Activity: Evaluating the Endometrium From Fertility to Menopause
- CME Activity: Accuracy of Saline Contrast Sonohysterography in Detection of Endometrial Polyps and Submucosal Leiomyomas in Women of Reproductive Age with Abnormal Uterine Bleeding: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
- CME Activity: Effect of Clomiphene Citrate on Endometrial Thickness, Ovulation, Pregnancy and Live Birth in Anovulatory Women: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
More depth
The ISUOG International Gynecological Imaging Certificate Course at the International Symposium provides the perfect starting point to dive into our rich educaitonal material and discover or re-discover more advanced approaches to the topic, research updates or related educational material of a more advanced level. The resources below look at the endometriumis more depth:
UOG articles
- Serial endometrial thickness and risk of non‐endometrial hormone‐dependent cancers in postmenopausal women in UK Collaborative Trial of Ovarian Cancer Screening UOG, Volume 56, Issue 2, Date: October 2019
Video lectures
Deep endometriosis assessment on ultrasound and MRI as defined by international deep endometriosis analysis (IDEA) group (diagnostic accuracy study)
Young investigator award: gynecology
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Supplement your learning - Diagnosis and management of ovarian tumours
Supplement your learning with the following learning resource, including exlusively-released video content from ISUOG courses and Congresses, UOG articles and ISUOG guidelines.
Video lectures
What is the best test to classify both expectantly and surgically managed ovarian masses? (D. Timmerman)
The new ESGO/ISUOG/ESGE/IOTA consensus on the pre-operative assessment of ovarian and tubal pathology (C. Fotopoulou)
Watch these exclusively released lectures from the oral communication "Classifying and Managing Ovarian Masses", delivered at ISUOG's 30th Virtual World Congress. Other resources available below.
VISUOG articles and Patient Information sheets
Adnexal pathology
Explore the sub-sections on Ovary and Fallopian Tube.
Ovarian masses
Explore sub-sections on tumors of epithelial origin, germ cell tumors, and stromal and sex-cord cell tumors and the chapters on borderline ovarian tumor and on metastases to the ovary.
Yolk Sac Tumors
This leaflet is to help you understand what Yolk Sac Tumors are, what tests you need and the implication of having been diagnosed with Yolk Sac Tumors for you, your baby and your family.
Epithelial ovarian carcinoma
This leaflet is to help you understand what Epithelial ovarian carcinoma is, what tests you need and the implication of being diagnosed with Epithelial ovarian carcinoma for you, your baby and your family.
Dysgerminoma
This leaflet is to help you understand what Dysgerminoma is, what tests you need and the implication of being diagnosed with Dysgerminoma for you, your baby and your family.
UOG articles
- Ultrasound image analysis using deep neural networks for discriminating between benign and malignant ovarian tumors: comparison with expert subjective assessment UOG: Volume 57, Issue 1 Date: November 2020.
- Imaging in gynecological disease: clinical and ultrasound characteristics of ovarian embryonal carcinomas, non‐gestational choriocarcinomas and malignant mixed germ cell tumors UOG Accepted Article: November 2020.
- Vessel morphology depicted by three‐dimensional power Doppler ultrasound as second‐stage test in adnexal tumors that are difficult to classify: prospective diagnostic accuracy study UOG: Volume 57, Issue 3, Date: August 2020.
- Imaging in Gynecological Disease UOG Virtual Issues, Date: First published August 2017, Last updated November 2020
- Ultrasound image analysis using deep neural networks for discriminating between benign and malignant ovarian tumors: comparison with expert subjective assessment UOG: Volume 57, Issue 1, Date: January 2021.
CME activities
Search the following activities on the ISUOG Academy learning management system to earn CME points as you learn.
- IOTA Terminology, Rules and Models
- Managing Ovarian Masses
- Update From the IOTA Group: How to Use IOTA Rules and Models
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Supplement your learning - Pregnancy of unknown location (PUL) and ectopic pregnancies
Supplement your learning with the following learning resource, including exlusively-released video content from ISUOG courses and Congresses, UOG articles and ISUOG guidelines.
Video lectures
Management of non-tubal ectopic pregnancy (D. Timmerman, Germany)
Watch this exclusively released lecture , delivered at ISUOG's 30th Virtual World Congress. Other resources available below.
Ectopic pregnancy: selecting appropriate management options for tubal and non-tubal ectopic pregnancy
By Dr Emma Kirk, World Congress 2020
UOG articles
- Cesarean scar pregnancy: a therapeutic dilemma UOG: Volume 57, Issue 1, Date: January 2021.
- Differences in post‐traumatic stress, anxiety and depression following miscarriage or ectopic pregnancy between women and their partners: multicenter prospective cohort study UOG: Volume 57, Issue 1, Date: January 2021.
VISUOG articles
Abnormal 4-chamber view
Explore chapters on the abnormal 4 chamber view.
CME activities
Earn CME points as you learn by searching and completing the following activities on the ISUOG Academy learning management system:
- CME Activity: Caesarean Section Scar Pregnancy: Updates on Diagnosis and Management
- CME Activity: Pregnancy of Unknown Location: Classification and Rationalising Follow Up
- CME Activity: How to Manage Disorders Related to Implantation and Caesarean Section Scars in the Pregnant and Non-Pregnant Patient?
Become a member to have access to all our educational resources and lectures from previous congresses and courses. Become a journal member to have full online access to all articles from Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Supplement your learning - Pelvic floor ultrasound
Supplement your learning with the following learning resource, including exclusively-released video content from ISUOG courses and Congresses, UOG articles and ISUOG guidelines.
Video lectures
In conversation with Hans Peter Dietz: diagnosis of maternal birth trauma by translabial tomographic imaging (H. P. Dietz, Australia)
Watch this exclusively released lecture , delivered at ISUOG's 30th Virtual World Congress. Other resources available below.
UOG articles
- Maternal birth trauma: how imaging can (and should) change clinical practice UOG Volume 57, Issue 1, Date: Jan 2021.
- Transperineal ultrasound assessment of maternal pelvic floor at term and fetal head engagement UOG Volume 56, Issue 6, Date: Dec 2020.
- How comparable is clinical grading of obstetric anal sphincter injury with that determined by four‐dimensional translabial ultrasound? UOG Volume 56, Issue 4, Date: Oct 2020.
- Effect of preoperative pelvic floor muscle training on pelvic floor muscle contraction and symptomatic and anatomical pelvic organ prolapse after surgery: randomized controlled trial UOG Volume 56, Issue 1, Date: July 2020.
- Vaginal laxity: which measure of levator ani distensibility is most predictive? UOG Volume 55, Issue 5, Date: May 2020.
Patient information leaflets
Gynecological Ultrasound Scan
This leaflet is to help you understand the use, accuracy and timing of pelvic ultrasound scan and what questions you should be asking your caregiver.
CME activities
Earn CME points as you learn by searching and completing the following activities on the ISUOG Academy learning management system:
- CME Activity: Comparison of Vaginal Mesh Repair with Sacrospinous Vaginal Colpopexy in the Management of Vaginal Vault Prolapse After Hysterectomy in Patients with Levator Ani Avulsion: A Randomized Controlled Trial
- CME Activity: Levator Ani Muscle Morphology and Function in Women with Obstetric Anal Sphincter Injury
- CME Activity: Pelvic Floor Ultrasound: Diagnosis and Management
- CME Activity: How to Assess the Pelvic Floor?
Become a member to have access to all our educational resources and lectures from previous congresses and courses. Become a journal member to have full online access to all articles from Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology.