Poster Presentations 2018

At the December 2018 Annual Scientific Meeting held at Emirates Old Trafford in Manchester we had a full Poster Exhibition.  59 posters were displayed in the Exhibition Hall and the abstracts were published in the proceedings and also as an e-supplement to the May 2019 Ultrasound journal. 

Set out below is a list of the posters linked to the abstract and an electronic copy of the poster. Over the next 12 months each of the posters wil be featured in our electronic newsletter, Ultrapost; as they are featured they will appear in the corresponding month below

Breast

Breast pathology - Early diagnosis by Ultrasound

Rute Santos, Daniela Marques, Ana Raquel Ribeiro, Medical Imaging and Radiotherapy Department Coimbra Health School, Polytechnic Insitute of Coimbra, Portugal

General Medical

Soft Tissue Lumps - A Case of Thrombosis of the Deep Dorsal Vein of the Penis

Borsha Sarker, Radiology BMI Woodlands Hospital 

Ultrasound evaluation of obstructive jaundice in patients presenting to a 'one-stop' jaundice clinic. A retrospective audit in a single centre

Caron Dames, Georgina Edwards, Rebecca Murphy, Thomas Welsh, Peter Cantin, University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust, Derriford Hospital

Overlooked Bladder Pathologies in Transabdominal Ultrasound Examinations

Kelsey Watt, Richard Chaytor, Catherine Gutteridge, Peter Cantin, Imaging University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust

Testicular Rupture: A Force of 50kg

Amy Duggan1, Yvonne Green2, Therese Herlihy1, Kevin Cronin1, 1University College Dublin, School of Medicine, 2Ultrasound Mater Misericordiae University Hospital

A case study of Carotid Artery Skull base dissection - US clues suggesting distal pathology

Matthew Christie, Salford Royal Foundation Trust

Ultrasound guided malignant ascites drainage - A unique multi-professional approach

Laura Laver, Ultrasound, The Great Western Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Ectopic splenic tissue, the value of contrast enhanced ultrasound

Ross Kruger, Simon Freeman, Derriford Hospital

Ultrasound assesment of early chronic liver disease

Pamela Parker2, Nimah M Sahib2, Louise Alcock1, Linda Sunman1, 1Ultrasound, Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, 2School of Life Sciences, Hull York Medical School.

Analysis of A-line Patterns Seen on Lung Ultrasound Scans in Healthy Volunteers Following Spontaneous Breathing and High Flow Nasal Cannula Therapy.

Jing Yi Kwan1, Wojciech Wierzejski21University of Manchester, Lancashire teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, 2Critical care Unit, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

Gangrenous Cholecystitis: Does Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound (CEUS) Improve diagnostic accuracy? A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Shaunna Smith, Ultrasound Hull and East Yorkshire

Falling off the cliff: renal resistive index as a pre-procedural predictor of acute kidney injury risk. A critical review.

Heather Venables1, Iain Lennon2, Manuch Soleimani31College of Health & Social care University of Derby, 2University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust, 3Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Bath.

Retrospective analysis to assess the diagnostic value and accuracy for characterisation of focal lesions with contrast enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) 

Sarah Carpenter, Ben Stenberg, Andrew McNeil, Naail Al-Zuhir, Elisabeth Pearce, Freeman Hospital, The Newcastle-upon-Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Imaging Complications in Orthotopic Liver Transplantation with Doppler Ultrasound: A Pictorial Review

Siti Umaira Binte Su'aidi, Division of Radiological Sciences Singapore General Hospital

Gynaecology

3D TV Ultrasound Congenital Uterine Anomalies

Rebecca Chambers, Ultrasound Manchester Fertility

Endometrial thickness - Is there an optimum cut-off value in postmenopausal women with bleeding?

Milly Boulas, University of Derby

Classifying Ovarian masses using IOTA - A Retrospective Study.

Carlene Veasey, Catherine Kirkpatrick, Radiology United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust

Predicting Endometriosis with Transvaginal Ultrasound.

Rachel Wilkins, Ultrasound Cambridge University Hospitals Trust

What is the diagnostic accuracy of 3D ultrasound in comparison to MRI for uterine anomalies?

Sally-Anne Jones1, Jane Arezina21Medical Imaging Medical Physics Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, 2School of Medicine University Leeds.

Transvaginal Ultrasound: beware the cervical cancer

Harriet Bowles, Peter Cantin, Ann MM Jones, Radiology University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust

A day in the life of a Fertility Sonographer

Anne Hurleston, Ultrasound Manchester Fertility Services

Pitfalls of Female Pelvic Ultrasound Imaging. Is it Really What you Think it Looks Like?

Caron Dames, University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust, Derriford Hospital

Head and Neck

The role of elastography in the assessment of thyroid nodules and its future direction

Jake Wheater, Ultrasound, Radiology York NHS Hospitals

Evaluation of thyroid nodules – review of agreement between U grade and TI-RADS scoring tools in a single ultrasound unit

Petra Williams Derriford Hospital

The Role of Ultrasound in a Diagnostically Challenging Case of Tuberculosis Cervical Lymphadenitis

Sandra Hopkins, University College Dublin

MSK

Ultrasound of Focal Tears to the Supraspinatus tendon : Does Patient Position affect tear size? 

Samantha O'Herlihy, Peterborough Ultrasound Department, North West Anglia Trust

Sonographic assessment of caclific deposit volume in rotator cuff calcific tendinosis - a reliable, accurate and non-invasive tecnhique 

Gabriel Constaninescu, Radiology, Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 

Obstetrics

The Inconspicuous and the Obvious: Spontaneous Heterotopic Pregnancies

Valerie Kinsella, Valerie Spillane, Peter McParland, National Maternity Hospital, Dublin

Cervical assessment - the unusal and unexpected

Ellen Dyer, Ultrasound, Rosie Hospital, Cambridge

Prenatal Diagnosis of Walker-Warburg Syndrome

Rebecca Rice1, Mary Moran2, Valerie Sillane1, 1Fetal Assessment Unit National Maternity Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, 2School of Diagnostic Imaging University College Dublin, Ireland

Challenges in the Diagnosis of secondary abdominal pregnancy - Unusual presentation with anhyramnios

Siewchee Wong1,  Gillian Coleman1, Amita Mahendru2, 1Obstetrics Nottingham University Hospital NHS Trust, Fetal Medicine Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.

Sonographer Perspectives of Breaking Bad News in Early Pregnancy Assessment - A Literature Review

Leigh Cassels-Gibson, Imaging University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

Placental Mesenchymal Dysplasia

Kay Hodge, Ultrasound, Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust

Paediatrics

Paediatric thyroid lesions

Thomas Davies, Karis McFeely, Judith Foster, Radiology Plymouth University Hospital Trust 

Ultrasound assessment of the groin in children

Aarushi Gangahar1,2, Kate Kingston1, 1York Radiology Department, 2Leeds Radiology Academy

Ultrasound of ambiguous genitalia: Challenges and Pitfalls

Susan Watts, Allison Harris, Tom Watson, Radiology Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust

Making use of the mastoid fontanelle: Additional views in neonatal intracrnial ultrasound imaging

Sophie McGlade1, Peter Cantin2, Judith Foster2, 1Peninsula Radiology Academy, 2Radiology Plymouth University Hospital Trust

Ultrasound of the Inguinal Canal in Children: A Pictoral Essay

Eu Leong Harvey Teo, Diagnostic Imaging and Intervention KK Women's and Children's Hospital.

Coarctation diagnosis from renal ultrasound

Richard Brindley, Ultrasound, New cross Hospital, The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

The use of contrast enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) in the identification of paediatric blunt abdominal trauma

Elisabeth Pearce, Radiology, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals Trust 

Ultrasound Diagnosis of Neonatal Intra-Abdominal Cysts: An Educational Pictorial Essay 

Eu Leong Harvey Teo, Diagnostic Imaging and Intervention, KK Women's and Children's Hospital

Physics

Low Intensity Pulsed Ultrasound for bone regeneration therapy: a controlled in vitro study method

Jill Savva, Margaret Lucas, Helen Mulvana, Medical and Industrial Ultrasonics, School of Engineering, University of Glasgow

A Novel Complex Flow Phantom for Doppler Ultrasound

Simone Ambrogio1,2, Adrian Walker2, Simone Ferrari1, Prashant Verma3, Andrew Narracott1, John W. Fenner1, 1Infection, Immunity & Cardiovascular Disease University of Sheffield, 2Leeds Test Objects Ltd, 3Medical Imaging & Medical Physics University of Sheffield

Professional Issues

Direct Entry the University of Cumbria experience

Lorelei Waring, Gareth Bolton, Amanda Marland, Shelley Smart, Medical and Sports Sciences University of Cumbria

The use of normal pregnant volunteers in ultrasound education - first insights of student experience,

Gillian Coleman, Heather Venables, JP Mayes, Rebecca Evans, College of Health and Social Care University of Derby.

Surviving Big Brother - Maintaining Quality without damaging staff moral.

Karen Zgoda, Pamela Parker, Andrew Hunter, Ultrasound Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust

Empathy Scores following an Interactive Service user session for Sonography Students: A Pilot Study.

Gill Harrison, Allison Harris, School oh Health Sciences City, University of London

Service needs, capacity and innovations to extend clinical capacity for sonographer education: An on-line survey

Gill Harrison, Society and College of Radiographers.

Implementing a multi-disciplinary Service for newborn hip screening

Lisa Hurndall, Plymouth University Hospitals NHS Trust 

Sonographers' experiences of work-related muscoloskeletal disorder: The everyday consequences of physiological stress and injury in contemporary ultrasound 

Gareth Bolton, Medical & Sport Sciences University of Cumbria 

Vascular

Doppler Ultrasound in the Surveillance of a Femoro-Popliteal Bypass Graft and Associated Pseudoaneuryms

Ellen Cronin, Radiology Department, Mercy University Hospital, Grenville Place, Cork, Ireland

Learning from Experience and Sharing Knowledge: Doppler training for nurses to improve pedal pulse assessments

Kate Houghton1, Jonathan Greenwood2, Teresa Robinson1, 1Vascular Science, Bristol Royal Infirmary, 2Coronary Care Unit, Bristol Royal Infirmary

Put you thinking HAT on... Pulsed-Wave Doppler Ultrasound Characteristics of a Hepatic Artery Thrombosis.

Lorraine Healy1,2, Kristine Gallagher2, Therese Herlihy11Radography and Diagnostic Imaging, School of Medicine, University College of Dublin, Ireland, 2Radiology Department, St. Vincent's University Hospital, Elm Park, Dublin 4, Ireland.