MATERIALS AND METHODS

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PRESENTING AT CONFERENCES
VIEWING THE CASES
PURPOSE
By using MyPACS to host your conferences, you
dont have to spend time making PowerPoint
slides, and you generate a shared record of all
case presentations.

1. Provide a free, comprehensive collection of
   web-accessible pediatric neoplasm cases with
   pathologic correlation when available.
2. Create a hierarchical index of available cases
   organized by anatomy and pathology categories,
   serving as a centralized resource for medical
   students, residents, fellows and practicing
   physicians.

1. Go to www.MyPACS.net.
1. Create a subfolder for each conference date
2. During the week, whenever you encounter an
interesting case, you can drop it into the folder
for presentation at the meeting
MATERIALS AND METHODS
2. Click on Pediatric Neoplasms under
Featured Collections in the lower left corner
Creating Cases
Cases were created using the free NIH-sponsored
teaching file system www.MyPACS.net. Using a web
browser, images can be uploaded to the MyPACS
server. MyPACS provides a batch uploader to
easily add entire directories of cases with a
single operation. The case editor form allows
easy entry of case properties (anatomy,
pathology, modality, patient age, etc)
3. When the conference begins, project the
teaching file system directly on the display
screen, turn on Training Mode and navigate to the
conference folder
and case text (history, findings, image captions,
diagnosis, discussion, references). HTML
hyperlinks can be added to make articles and
other resources easily available from within the
case.
3. Drill down through categories to explore cases.
4. During the meeting, each participant can come
forward in turn and click on their case. With
training mode on, the presenter can discuss the
case as an unknown and quiz the audience on the
findings.
4. Visit Tracker lets you know which cases youve
seen before (requires log in).
CONCLUSION
Creating the Folder Hierarchy
We developed a neoplasm category system based on
the SPR pediatric curriculum (http//pedrad.org/tr
ainees/86/), with modifications where needed,
consisting of over 200 categories. We entered
the curriculum as a tab-delimited text file in
wordpad, then pasted the text into the MyPACS
Batch Folder creator. MyPACS automatically
created a hierarchy of web folders, one for each
category system. It was then easy to add cases
to the relevant folders using the MyPACS add to
folder feature. We added cases from our own
institution and personal collections. We also
searched the entire MyPACS repository for
pertinent cases and referenced teaching files on
external web databases.
Creating cases in MyPACS.net took only a few
minutes per case. Once the images were uploaded,
the cases were immediately available for browsing
by anyone over the internet. The folder
hierarchy was easy to create and can be expanded
in the future using the folder manipulator
interface on MyPACS. We have added over 700
cases to date, and more are being contributed
every month. Pathologic correlation is provided
when available. At our institution, all cases
presented at Tumor Board have pathologic-radiologi
c correlation. This makes Tumor Board very
functional and also provides a pool for adding
cases to the repository. MyPACS increases
collaboration and allows us to create a growing
resource for future generations. We invite you
to submit cases to the collection. Please email
pjsilberberg_at_comcast.net for more information.

• 5. Explore the features of MyPACS
• Click on images to enlarge them.
• Turn on training mode to view cases as unknowns.
• Post comments.
• Store interesting cases in your own folders.
• Search on case text or any properties.
• Create your own cases!