84420 - Bone and Joint Pathology

Academic Year 2020/2021

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 9210)

Learning outcomes

Recognize the morphologic and molecular features of bone and joint diseases, and correlate them with their clinical presentation.

Course contents

Surgical pathology and histopathology of the following diseases:

Benign tumors of the bone and cartilage

Malignant tumors of the bone and cartilage

Soft tissue sarcomas: (liposarcoma, leiomyosarcoma, aggressive fibromatosis, fibrosarcoma, nerve sheet tumors, malignant histiocytomas)

Readings/Bibliography

Robbins & Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease

Teaching methods

Class presentations

Assessment methods

Oral test on the topics of the integrated course.

Dates of the tests:

January 15th  2021,  8AM

February 4th 2021, 8AM

June 21st  2021, 8AM

July 8th 2021, 8AM

September 16th 2021, 8AM

September 30th 2021, 8AM

Teaching tools

View of digitalized histological slides

Office hours

See the website of Michelangelo Fiorentino