Surgery: Clinics and Therapy (5th year)
A.Y. 2023/2024
Learning objectives
The course aims to provide students with:
i) knowledge of the main diseases, benign or malignant, of surgical interest and the main surgical techniques needed;
ii) information on diagnostic and therapeutic methods;
iii) the ability to identify the conditions that require the specialist's professional contribution.
i) knowledge of the main diseases, benign or malignant, of surgical interest and the main surgical techniques needed;
ii) information on diagnostic and therapeutic methods;
iii) the ability to identify the conditions that require the specialist's professional contribution.
Expected learning outcomes
Students must:
i) know how to correlate the signs and symptoms to the main surgical pathologies;
ii) know how to develop a diagnostic and therapeutic pathway with regard to benign and malignant diseases;
iii) know how to communicate to the patient the options of a conservative and surgical nature.
i) know how to correlate the signs and symptoms to the main surgical pathologies;
ii) know how to develop a diagnostic and therapeutic pathway with regard to benign and malignant diseases;
iii) know how to communicate to the patient the options of a conservative and surgical nature.
Lesson period: year
Assessment methods: Esame alla fine del gruppo
Assessment result: Inserire codice AF
Single course
This course cannot be attended as a single course. Please check our list of single courses to find the ones available for enrolment.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Course syllabus
Acute Appendicitis:
Abdominal Hernias and Incisional Hernias
Intestinal Occlusion
Peritonitis
Fibrocystic dysplasia of the breast
Mammary fibroadenoma
Carcinoma of the breast
Burns
Surgical Specialities
Chronic arteriopathies of the lower limbs (Vascular Surgery)
Acute lower limb ischemia (Vascular Surgery)
Varices of the lower limbs (Vascular Surgery)
Cerebrovascular insufficiency (Vascular Surgery)
Pulmonary thickening (Thoracic surgery)
Mediastinal masses (Thoracic surgery)
Haematuria (Urology)
Scrotal masses (Urology)
Prostatic pathology (Urology)
Abdominal Hernias and Incisional Hernias
Intestinal Occlusion
Peritonitis
Fibrocystic dysplasia of the breast
Mammary fibroadenoma
Carcinoma of the breast
Burns
Surgical Specialities
Chronic arteriopathies of the lower limbs (Vascular Surgery)
Acute lower limb ischemia (Vascular Surgery)
Varices of the lower limbs (Vascular Surgery)
Cerebrovascular insufficiency (Vascular Surgery)
Pulmonary thickening (Thoracic surgery)
Mediastinal masses (Thoracic surgery)
Haematuria (Urology)
Scrotal masses (Urology)
Prostatic pathology (Urology)
Prerequisites for admission
The student must possess the knowledge acquired in the teachings of Human Anatomy, Human Physiology, Pathology and General Pathology, Semeiotics and Pathology of the Apparatuses 1 and 2, Medical Pharmacology.
Teaching methods
Each credit includes hours of frontal and innovative teaching. The innovative teaching activities consist in the deepening of specific topics of the course syllabus, that will be selected by the students and the teacher. Such activity will be carried out in active collaboration between students and teacher and performed with the support of computer devices and platforms in synchronous or asynchronous mode.
Frontal lessons.
Seminars.
Frontal lessons.
Seminars.
Teaching Resources
F. Minni: Chirurgia Generale (2 voll.), CEA, 2019
D.F. D'Amico: Manuale di Chirurgia Generale, II Ed., Piccin, 2018
R. Dionigi: Chirurgia, VI Ed. (2 voll.), Elsevier, 2017
J.L. Cameron, A.M. Cameron: Current Surgical Therapy, XIV Ed., Elsevier, 2023
C.M. Townsend: Sabiston Textbook of Surgery, XXI Ed., Elsevier, 2021
M.W. Mulholland: Greenfield's Surgery, VII Ed., Wolters Kluwer, 2021
F.C. Brunicardi: Schwartz's Principles of Surgery, XI Ed., McGraw-Hill, 2019
D.F. D'Amico: Manuale di Chirurgia Generale, II Ed., Piccin, 2018
R. Dionigi: Chirurgia, VI Ed. (2 voll.), Elsevier, 2017
J.L. Cameron, A.M. Cameron: Current Surgical Therapy, XIV Ed., Elsevier, 2023
C.M. Townsend: Sabiston Textbook of Surgery, XXI Ed., Elsevier, 2021
M.W. Mulholland: Greenfield's Surgery, VII Ed., Wolters Kluwer, 2021
F.C. Brunicardi: Schwartz's Principles of Surgery, XI Ed., McGraw-Hill, 2019
Assessment methods and Criteria
Oral examination. The candidate must be able to carry out a clinical reasoning on the basis of a simple clinical case, also indicating the principles of therapy.
MED/18 - GENERAL SURGERY - University credits: 5
Lessons: 40 hours
: 20 hours
: 20 hours
Professors:
Formisano Giampaolo, Ghilardi Giorgio
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