68980 - Cytopatology and Other Morphological Techniques

Academic Year 2017/2018

  • Docente: Paolo Scarani
  • Credits: 2
  • SSD: MED/08
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Midwifery (cod. 9201)

Learning outcomes

The student should mandatorily be able to know the main techniques to preserve the biological specimens to be sent to the laboratory of pathology and the information useful to the pathologist in order to formulate a correct diagnosis.
It is also critical to know the international criteria to label the diseases in medicine and pathology, the concepts of grading and staging in neoplastic and non-neoplastic disease, and the difference between prognostic and predictive criteria in the patological diagnosis.

the relevance of a precise specification of all methods used by the pathologist (electron microscopy, histochemistry, immunohistochemistry, molecular pathology) should be accurately specified in the diagnostic report.

The usefulness of autopsy in the interpretation of sudden death should also be perceived

Course contents

etiology and pathogenesis of female genital tract, trophoblastic and female breast neoplasia
general and special morphological patterns
natural history and spread
hormone-related neoplasia
cytopathological and histopathological diagnosis
biomolecular techniques
early diagnosis and prevention
staging and grading
the histopathological diagnosis
how to gather appropriate up-to-date information in internet

Readings/Bibliography

no textbook recommended. very useful the websites of the Centers for disease control (cdc.gov), the National Cancer Institute (cancer.gov) and the Nature (nature.com) and Science (sciencemag.com) magazines. unibo subscribes both

Teaching methods

informal classes

Assessment methods

continuing discussion of the matter with the participants to the course. no final examination scheduled. attendance recommended

Teaching tools

none

Office hours

See the website of Paolo Scarani