- Docente: Giuseppina Di Stefano
- Credits: 2
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 8415)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course, the student knows the general aspects of histopathology and recognizes the microscopic cell and tissue changes caused by diseases and by defence reactions. He/she is able to establish the relationship between tissue changes and disease mechanisms. He/she knows the limits and the potential of hystopathology.
Course contents
Microscopic general histopathology: reversible cell injury and fatty change, amyloidosis, necrosis and infarction, acute and chronic inflammation, granulation tissue, fibrosis, cirrhosis, atherosclerosis, thrombosis, epithelial and mesenchymal tumors, metastasis.
Readings/Bibliography
BATTELLI M.G., Atlante di istopatologia, CLUEB.
Teaching methods
The students will be divided in four groups to ensure the individual access to microscopes and the opportunity of studying the histological slides. A teacher will be constantly present during laboratory training, to guide the study, answer the questions and solve the problems.
Assessment methods
Histopathology will be a part of the Pathology and Physiopathology
exam.
The final exam
will consist in the
description of a histological
slide, observed under light microscopy.
It will be aimed at
verifying the
student's ability to recognize the main morphological
alterations caused in cells and tissues by the pathologic
processes
described
during the laboratory course.
The final grade of the
course is the average of the grades obtained
in the single tests.
Teaching tools
The histopathology laboratory has 48 microscopes and a microscope-connected projector.
Tissue slides are available in digital format at:
http://virtualmicroscopy.patologia-sperimentale.unibo.it/Office hours
See the website of Giuseppina Di Stefano