00166 - Surgical Clinical Medicine (LZ-A)

Learning outcomes

The aim of the course is to describe the main clinical characteristics of the most common pathologies susceptible to surgical treatment. Attending the  course the student will be able to recongnized signs and symptoms of the main surgical diseases and he also we able to set up a diagnostic and therapeutic path for the patients.

Surgical techiniques of the main surgical procedures will be explained and described also with support of surgical videos. Postoperative complications and surgical outcomes will also be described. 

For neoplastic diseases clinical and strumental follow-up will be discussed

Course contents

Surgical treatment of functional and neoplastic diseases of the esophagus

Gastric neoplasia and surgical treatment

Surgical anatomy of the liver. Surgical management of benign and malignant tumors of the liver

Liver transplantation

Gallbladder lithiasis: surgical treatment and management of surgical complications

Acute and chronic pancreatitis

Pancreatic tumors and their surgical treatment

Small bowel neoplasia end their surgical treatment

Surgical treatment of small bowel diseases: crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis

Diverticular disease of the colon

Colon rectum tumors and their surgical management

Benign ano-rectal diseases

Abdominal and incisional hernias and their surgical management

Readings/Bibliography

General Surgery
Metodologia - Patologia - Clinica Chirurgica
Autori: Rocco Bellantone - Giorgio De Toma - Marco Montorsi
Edizioni Minerva Medica

Teaching methods

Oral lessons

Discussion of surgical videos

 

Assessment methods

Oral examination: the student will be asked on one or two contents of the course by one of the menbers of the commission

Teaching tools

Power point presentations on the contents of the corse used during the oral lessons will be give to the student

Surgical videos on main surgical procedures will be used during the lessons

Office hours

See the website of Gilberto Poggioli