71038 - Diagnostics Assessments

Academic Year 2022/2023

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 8415)

Learning outcomes

The student will achieve morphofunctional basis of main muscle pathologies, knowledges of the diagnostic workup by formal lessons and a multidisciplinary case discussion

Course contents

Course contents:

- The morpho-functional organization od skeletal muscle

- The muscle biopsy

- Histopathology, istoenzimology, immunohistochemistry, quantitative analysis

- Transmission electron microscopy

Readings/Bibliography

Recommended reading:

.ppt presentations available at AMS Campus - AlmaDL- Università di Bologna

Teaching methods

Teaching methods:

The course is 1 CFU teaching module: 4 hours of formal lessons and 4 hours dedicated to clinical case discussion at microscope

Assessment methods

Assessment methods:

Eligibility assessment through a multiple choice test.

- Diagnostic workup of main muscle diseases

- Ultrastructural workup of main muscle diseases

Teaching tools

Teaching tools:

Formal and practical lessons in the light and electron microscopy laboratory

Office hours

See the website of Giovanna Cenacchi